Helvetica Movie

  • Helvetica is a full-length documentary film about typography and graphic design.
  • It is directed Gary Hastwit. Produced by Gary Hastwit and Swiss Dots Veer.
  • It consists of a history of typeface by interviews with leading graphic and type designers.
  • The film aims to show Helvetica's beauty and ubiquity, illuminate the personalities that are behind typefaces.
  • It also explores the difference between modernists and postmodernists with the latter expressing and explaining their criticisms of the famous typeface.
  • It is released in 12th September 2007 in United States in English language.
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Interviewees:
  • Manfred Schulz
  • Massimo Vignelli
  • Rick Poynor
  • Wim Crouwel
  • Matthew Carter
  • Alfred Hoffmann, Eduard Hoffmann's son
  • Mike Parker Linotype's typographic development director.
  • Otmar Hoefer
  • Bruno Steiert
  • Hermann Zapf
  • Michael Bierut
  • Leslie Savan
  • Tobias Frere-Jones
  • Jonathan Hoefler
  • Erik Spiekermann
  • Neville Brody
  • Lars Müller
  • Paula Scher
  • Stefan Sagmeister
  • David Carson
  • Experimental Jetset
  • Michael C. Place
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