Helvetica
Helvetica comes from the latin words Confoederatio Helvetica and means Switzerland. Helvetica is also a typeface used widely around the globe.
I had the opportunity to to see the movie: Helvetica, a documentry film by Gary Hustwit, which was really good and interesting. If you have a chance to see the film you should. Even my girlfriend that is not really interested in typography liked it. It was an good documentary with many laughs and smiles.
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.
About the typeface
Helvetica was developed by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann in 1957 for the Haas Type Foundry in Münchenstein, Switzerland. In the late 1950s, the European design world saw a revival of older sans-serif typefaces such as the German face Akzidenz Grotesk. Haas’ director Hoffmann commissioned Miedinger, a former employee and freelance designer, to draw an updated sans-serif typeface to add to their line. The result was called Neue Haas Grotesk, but its name was later changed to Helvetica, derived from Helvetia, the Latin name for Switzerland, when Haas’ German parent companies Stempel and Linotype began marketing the font internationally in 1961.
- Helvetica, a documentry film by Gary Hustwit,
- Arial or Helvetica (Arial is a Microsoft rip-off)
- Helvetica at Wikipedia
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