So last night I finally got around to watching Gary Hustwit’s film about design and typography, ‘Helvetica‘.

The film explores the development, meteoric rise to fame and finally the near ubiquity of the font Helvetica. If you are reading this and wondering ‘Geez. A feature length film about a font?’ You should probably close this window right now.Keep reading if you do think fonts are interesting and know what a serif is and why it came about, or if like me, you happened to share a hostel room with two extremely nerdy graphic designers while at college. Read more…

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