Helvetica (film)
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Original title | Helvetica |
Country of production | England |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2007 |
length | 80 minutes |
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Director | Gary Hustwit |
production | Gary Hustwit Swiss Dots Veer |
camera | Luke Geissbuhler |
cut |
Shelby Siegel Laura Weinberg |
Helvetica is a documentary about typography and graphic design , told using the Helvetica font . In March 2007, the 50th anniversary film premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The director is the independent filmmaker Gary Hustwit .
The film tells the story, distribution and application of the script. Here are interviews with famous designers and typographers as Erik Spiekermann , Hermann Zapf , Neville Brody , Massimo Vignelli and Stefan Sagmeister interspersed. The documentation aims to show how ubiquitous Helvetica is in our lives. The German premiere took place in 2007 at TYPO Berlin , the largest regular design conference in Europe.
A TV adaptation of the film was broadcast in England on BBC One in November 2007 . In the USA the documentation was broadcast on PBS in January 2009 .
In 2008 Helvetica was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award and the Chlotrudis Award .
The film was released on DVD in November 2007 and is now also available on Blu-ray Disc .
See also
Objectified , Gary Hustwit's new industrial design film .
Individual evidence
- ↑ TYPO Berlin 2007 Music | Helvetica film. Retrieved April 3, 2019 .
- ^ Film Independent Spirit Awards (2008). Retrieved April 3, 2019 .
Web links
- Official website for the film
- Helvetica DVD Review (English)
- Helvetica in the Internet Movie Database (English)