I'm a big fan of Eric Spiekermann (see this older post on Helvetica). So I was happy to get a tip from Thorsten Happel in Germany about this cool remix below called Typefaces Give Us Signals. Watch it below or on Vimeo.
Typomania
Below is the original video made for the BBC nearly 25 years ago from which the audio clips from Eric Spiekermann were remixed to create something more appropriate for our time. Although elementary, the video below is still good stuff even today. So, are you a typomaniac? If you are, you will surely enjoy the documentary Helvetica.
"If letters are the clothes that words wear, then it surely follows that there must be as many typefaces as there are voices, languages, and emotions."
— Erik Spiekermann
Great quote on the second video:
"Helvetica: the one typeface designed to show no feelings..."
That's the same way I feel about Arial.
Posted by: Jonathan | July 16, 2009 at 12:58 AM
>"Helvetica: the one typeface designed to show no feelings..."
I love Helvetica. Arial is a rip-off of Helvetica. Arial must never be used by anyone...ever in a presentation visual.
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I adore typefaces. I used to spend hours just trawling through the Letraset catalogue.
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Spiekerman is a great designer that's true - but the whole "Typeface gives us Signals" thing is from Marshall McLuhan's 1951 book "The Mechanical Bride" published when Speikerman was 4 years old (25 years before the BBC thing)... It's seems appropriate to reference McLuhan when referencing his work.
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