Helvetica: The Movie

I mentioned this documentary about type design in an earlier thread but the movie's out.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070418.whelvetica18/BNStory/Entertainment/home

Hustwit's film has already been shown to sold-out audiences in Austin, Dallas, Zurich, Prague, Istanbul, New York, Providence and Boston. It will get its Canadian debut at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto on Saturday. It's also set to screen at the Logo Cities symposium at Concordia University in Montreal on May 5, and will be shown in Calgary later that month

Didn't know that Helvetica turns fifty this year.

 

Coming to a theater near you: "Poster Bodoni: The Comedy."

 

I'm the serif in this here town, and what I say goes.

 

I always considered you a dingbat.

 

I use Arial Black quite a bit for my special sections, in the folio and on the covers.

 

Some of my students saw this at South-by and said it was really interesting.

Please resume font jokes now.

 

Boy, them's ALL CAPS words!

 

Yer gonna need more than that tin star to be serif 'round these parts.

 

He exclaimed.

 

Son, the kearning on that there mess o' agate looks like it was rode hard and put away wet.

 

Sir, I'm not tracking what you're saying. Perhaps you could trim a few words and shorten it up for me.