I am doing an independent study in design and concentrating on typography. I had my first typography assignment due which consisted of hand drawing 17 different type faces. While executing this tedious task I obviously had typography on the mind and came to the realization I know absolutely nothing about it and as a designer that just seemed wrong. So I rented the movie Helvetica, I had heard good things about it. It was definitely interesting and one quote in particular really stuck with me, "Helvetica is like air, it is just there." It is so true it is everywhere, literally, we see it so much and so often we don't even notice it anymore. But now after watching this movie it is all I see it is even on my automatic lock and window buttons in my car. This movie has now made me forever perceptive to the helvetica type face that has taken over visual world. And while I can appreciate it for what it was and is, helvetica is fast becoming to me that friend who at first was cool but is around too much and now I am sick of them.
I gave this link to someone else, but you might enjoy it as well: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole
ReplyDeletealso, this is one of my friend's website with some of her typography work that might interest you:
http://www.arianfranz.com/?cat=3