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Helvetica
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Format | NTSC, Widescreen, Dolby, Multiple Formats |
Contributor | Otmar Hoefer, Matthew Carter, Experimental Jetset, Gary Hustwit, Lars Mller, David Carson, Michael Bierut, Rick Poynor, Massimo Vignelli, Mike Parker, Erik Spiekermann, Alfred Hoffmann, Bruno Steinert, Tobias Frere-Jones, Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher, Norm, Wim Crouwel, Jonathan Hoefler, Leslie Savan, Hermann Zapf, Neville Brody, Michael C. Place See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 20 minutes |
Color | Color |
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Product Description
Product Description
Changing the world, one letter at a time…
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.
Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.
Interviewees in Helvetica include some of the most illustrious and innovative names in the design world, including Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf, Neville Brody, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut, David Carson, Paula Scher, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Experimental Jetset, Michael C. Place, Norm, Alfred Hoffmann, Mike Parker, Bruno Steinert, Otmar Hoefer, Leslie Savan, Rick Poynor, Lars Muller, and many more
Special Features:
95 minutes of bonus interviews English and German subtitles
Review
Blissful..it sharpens your eye...and makes connections between art and life. -- Chicago Tribune
Helvetica is truly a work of art. -- Austin Chronicle
One of the wittiest, most diligently researched, slyly untelligent and quietly captivating documentaries of the year. -- Time Out London
Provocative. -- NY Times
Viewers are in for an exclamation point of joy from such a well designed doc. "A -" --Entertainment Weekly
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Item model number : 082354004224
- Director : Gary Hustwit
- Media Format : NTSC, Widescreen, Dolby, Multiple Formats
- Run time : 1 hour and 20 minutes
- Release date : July 1, 2010
- Actors : David Carson, Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel
- Subtitles: : German, English
- Language : English (DD), Unqualified
- Studio : Plexifilm
- ASIN : B000VWEFP8
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #106,777 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #3,100 in Documentary (Movies & TV)
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This is a film about the changes in typography since the introduction of Helvetica in 1960 -- its near-universal adoption, then the natural reaction against it. If you are at all interested in typography or design, you'll almost certainly enjoy this film. If it has a problem, it's that it doesn't accommodate the general viewer with much information about the history of type design. It assumes you already know something about the subject matter.
The Blu-ray is a bit on the soft side (compared to what one expects from Blu-ray disks), probably because the film was (likely) shot on 16mm. It is, however, completely free (as I far as I could tell) from dust, scratches, and spots.
* It's worth noting that the terms "font" and "typeface" have the wrong meanings. "Officially", a typeface is a style (Times Roman, Courier, Bookman, Avant Garde), while a font is the particular treatment of a style -- size, weight, etc. This is, of course, backwards. "Font" is obviously derived from "fount" (source), and thus //should// refer to the style, while "typeface" suggests what one would see when looking at the face of the type -- the type slug itself. The people in this film commonly refer to type styles as "fonts" -- which is logically correct, even though it's "officially" wrong.
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Insgesamt eine schöne bluray mit guter, aber nicht sehr guter Bildqualität für Liebhaber, die in Deutschland aber leider importiert werden muss und daher teuer ist.