The Life and Times of a Typeface
di Matt Zoller Seitz The New York Times
“Helvetica,” a feature-length documentary about that typeface, promises too much information. Luckily, the filmmaker Gary Hustwit — who also directed the mesmerizing “Moog,” about the analog synthesizer — has a knack for finding a universe within a narrow topic.
Overlong but fascinating, Mr. Hustwit’s documentary posits Helvetica — a sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 at the Haas Foundry in Munchenstein, Switzerland — as an emblem of the machine age, a harbinger of globalization and an ally of modern art’s impulse toward innovation, simplicity and abstraction. [...]
di Matt Zoller Seitz, articolo completo (1397 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 12 settembre 2007
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