Helvetica, the Movie

According to the website:

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica will begin screening at film festivals worldwide starting in March, followed by cinema screenings across the US and Europe, and the DVD release.

Screening dates will be announced on the official Helvetica Film website, on February 6th.

NOTE: Many thanks to Allan L. for turning me on to this documentary.

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Other type in film

YouTube has spawned interest in a design world sub-genre of independant short films on typography, such as Typography School, on the disappearing art of handset type vs. computer aided design, the Behind the Typeface series pieces, Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black and Behind The Typeface: Rosewood. There is also the animated piece, New Typography is the Future, based on the 1928 work of Jan Tschichold.

Comments

[Cheshire]

Just a clarification: I didn't do the Rosewood piece. I'd like to distance myself from that as much as I possibly can.