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<title><![CDATA[Monopoly got a redesign]]></title>
<link>http://favoritestore.wordpress.com/?p=511</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sylvie</dc:creator>
<guid>http://favoritestore.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/monopoly-got-a-redesign/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Combining two of life&#8217;s great pleasures—Helvetica and board games (Monopoly, to be specific)]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">Combining two of life's great pleasures—Helvetica and board games (Monopoly, to be specific)—French graphic designer <strong>Florent Guerlain</strong> has given one of our favorites a redesign.  Behold!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="monopoly" src="http://www.designworklife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/monoply.jpg" alt="" width="421" height="286" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">{via <a href="http://www.designworklife.com/?p=1588">Design Work Life</a>}</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Project Development: Book Cover]]></title>
<link>http://paulprice.wordpress.com/?p=76</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>paulprice</dc:creator>
<guid>http://paulprice.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/project-development-book-cover/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The other day we got told that we&#8217;ve been working on a book that&#8217;s actually only 12 page]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The other day we got told that we've been working on a book that's actually only 12 pages long, 6 sides if you like, 2 pages of which are unusable for photographs or layout. This is pretty shit, weeks and weeks of work only to end up with a book 10 pages long and whilst you could argue that all of the research, the work and the enjoyment or dislike we've put into our books may give them some of sort of character and soul, in actual fact they're books that will go on display to be viewed and criticised without any thought for the effort put into them. Aside from the illustrative books, the photographic books are just going to be photographic books, some photos will be shit and some will be beautiful but they do not, in my opinion show effort and time spent; books that are substantially long and powerfully designed do. I could be wrong though, I probably am.</p>
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<p>Ok rant over, Graham told us that we wouldn't be able to have book covers because I think we're binding with plain black covers but he mentioned that we could create book sleeves if we were far enough ahead. I sort of think that this is really important, the book itself needs something on the outside to entice the reader/viewer into bothering to look at it; in a display sense this is important because what gains attention gets attention. Over yesterday and today I've been working on ideas for a book sleeves/slip design. I want it to be simple and elegant but at the same time draw the viewer in; to do this I think it needs to be ever so slightly interactive and for this I've decided to use a pop-up technique as seen below.</p>
<p><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/118118/Untitled-1-3.jpg"><img class="alignnone" title="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/118118/Untitled-1-3.jpg" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/118118/Untitled-1-3.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>The idea with the text is that you have to view it at a certain angle to see the text in the correct way; this runs parallel with the idea that viewing a city in a different way will give you different results. If I'm honest i don't think this works very well as a book cover, it's quite clunky and awkward to get the viewer to understand the concept of placing the buildings at the right angle to view the type. I'm going to stick with the idea of the pop-up skyline because it adds an extra dimension to the book as a table book or as a shelf book; it can be viewed in different ways according to how it's placed etc.</p>
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<p>I have also been deciding which type face to use in the book, quite expectedly I'm being a helvetica bitch and mainly experimenting with it although I'm loving eurostile too. Below is a bunch of test types that I've done, circled are the ones I like a lot. Helvetica Bold -50 kerning fact fans.</p>
<p><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/118118/Untitled-ff1.jpg"><img class="alignnone" title="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/118118/Untitled-ff1.jpg" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/118118/Untitled-ff1.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="328" /></a></p>
<p>The type needs to be concise and legible as well as bold and stark to catch the viewers attention, although helvetica is a double edged sword, it could fade in to the background because of its' overuse, hopefully not thought because I don't like many other san-serif type faces.</p>
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<p>Paul.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Fontespício 2...]]></title>
<link>http://braind.wordpress.com/?p=1212</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nsu</dc:creator>
<guid>http://braind.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/fontespicio-2/</guid>
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Acho que só mesmo os designers é que reparam nisto&#8230;
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<p>Acho que só mesmo os designers é que reparam nisto...</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Helvetica + Xilogravura = Helwoodica - Fonte Grátis!]]></title>
<link>http://sobredesign.wordpress.com/?p=378</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ana Flávia Dias</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sobredesign.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/helvetica-xilogravura-helwoodica-fonte-gratis/</guid>
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Fonte Artesanal é blog do projeto “Do Artesanal ao Digital: Possibilidades de Tipografias Experi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="widget-content"><a title="Baixe Helwoodica, fonte feita com xilografia" href="http://www.dafont.com/helwoodica.font"><img class="alignleft" style="border:0 none;margin:0 6px;" src="http://flipdarius.googlepages.com/bannerfahelwoodica.jpg" alt="Baixe Helwoodica, fonte feita com xilografia" width="250" height="150" /></a></div>
<p><a href="http://fonteartesanal.blogspot.com/2008/10/helvetica-xilografia-helwoodica.html" target="_blank">Fonte Artesanal</a> é blog do projeto “Do Artesanal ao Digital: Possibilidades de Tipografias Experimentais” do estudante Felipe Dário, CEFET-PE e UFPE.  O objetivo é pesquisar processos artesanais para a criação de fontes digitais.</p>
<p>A Helwoodica é a única fonte disponível por enquanto, Felipe promete mais em breve.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dafont.com/helwoodica.font" target="_blank">Baixe aqui</a> a fonte grátuitamente.</p>
<p>Saiba mais: <a href="http://fonteartesanal.blogspot.com/2008/10/helvetica-xilografia-helwoodica.html">www.fonteartesanal.blogspot.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Typography class.]]></title>
<link>http://eduardoangel.wordpress.com/?p=28</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alekos</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eduardoangel.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/typography-class/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Iranian Typography, Typeface The Movie (not to be confused with Helvetica The Film), handwritten t]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://pingmag.jp/2006/12/11/iranian-typography-now/">Iranian</a> Typography, <a href="http://typeface.kartemquin.com">Typeface</a> The Movie (not to be confused with <a href="http://www.helveticafilm.com/index.html">Helvetica</a> The Film), <a href="http://www.themaninblue.com/articles/handwritten_typographers/">handwritten</a> typographers, and an imaginary landscape of <a href="http://www.odedezer.com/Thefinger.html">Hebrew letters</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Class]]></title>
<link>http://businessclassnyc.wordpress.com/?p=1972</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lindabernal</dc:creator>
<guid>http://businessclassnyc.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/class/</guid>
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Mike Monteiro
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<p><a href="http://www.beholder-art.com/artist_detail/37/Mike%20Monteiro.html">Mike Monteiro</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Font: Helvetica]]></title>
<link>http://d3mb5ky.wordpress.com/?p=122</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>d3mb5ky</dc:creator>
<guid>http://d3mb5ky.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/font-helvetica/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jak pisze wikipedia: Helvetica to jeden z najpopularniejszych proporcjonalnych jednoelementowych kro]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Jak pisze wikipedia: </strong><strong>Helvetica</strong> to jeden z najpopularniejszych proporcjonalnych jednoelementowych krojów pisma. Opracowany został pierwotnie jako czcionka przez <span class="new">Maxa Miedingera</span> w 1957 r. dla firmy Haas’sche Schriftgießerei ze Szwajcarii. Nazwa kroju pochodzi od słowa Helwecja, rzymskiej nazwy obecnych terenów Szwajcarii. ( <a title="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica" target="_blank">więcej</a> )</p>
<p>Poniżej prezętuję font Helvetica...</p>
<p><a href="http://i35.tinypic.com/2j2alhj.jpg"><img class="alignnone" src="http://i35.tinypic.com/2j2alhj.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="355" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Ciekawostki: </strong>Czy wiesz że font Helvetica jest bardzo podobna do Arial ? ( <a title="http://typografia.ogme.pl/index.php?option=com_content&#38;task=view&#38;id=48&#38;Itemid=4" href="http://typografia.ogme.pl/index.php?option=com_content&#38;task=view&#38;id=48&#38;Itemid=4" target="_blank">więcej</a> )</p>
<p><strong>Download:</strong></p>
<p><a title="http://rapidshare.com/files/153340288/Helvetica_download_from_d3mb5ky.wordpress.com.rar" href="http://rapidshare.com/files/153340288/Helvetica_download_from_d3mb5ky.wordpress.com.rar" target="_blank">http://rapidshare.com/files/153340288/Helvetica_download_from_d3mb5ky.wordpress.com.rar</a></p>
<p>__________________</p>
<p>Nie wiem tak naprawdę co ma ta czcionka w sobie... bardzo mi się podoba :D that's all ;P. Poza tym dzięki niej można zrobić coś naprawdę fajnego... np. tapetę tak jak ta poniżej :D :</p>
<p><a href="http://i35.tinypic.com/1et9oo.jpg"><img class="alignnone" src="http://i35.tinypic.com/1et9oo.jpg" alt="" width="474" height="356" /></a></p>
<p><em>Kliknij obrazek aby powiększyć...</em></p>
<p>Heh oczywiśnie sama czcionka nie wystarczy ;) ale czasami dużo potrafi pomóc ;)</p>
<p>__________________</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Episode Twenty Nine]]></title>
<link>http://chasingfamy.wordpress.com/?p=72</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chasingfamy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://chasingfamy.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/episode-twenty-nine/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Listen Here
Download Here
Melissa’s birfday
Penguins
Double election stuf
holding hands
Ballroom
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blip.tv/file/1342765/">Listen Here</a></p>
<p><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/ChasingFamy-EpisodeTwentyNine957.mp3">Download Here</a></p>
<p>Melissa’s birfday<br />
Penguins<br />
Double election stuf<br />
holding hands<br />
Ballroom<br />
PG porn<br />
Bassguy’s question<br />
Guadialogy—word lists, vet, killing snakes<br />
Film Festival<br />
Southington Applefest—throwdown<br />
Helvetica<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA1m-z4JFcw">GFY TFB ACL</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ct.gov/ctportal/cwp/view.asp?A=885&#38;Q=246528">Charter Oak</a></p>
<p>Plugs:  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/tezcatlipoca98/">Tezcatlipoca98</a> (google 4 moar, n00bz)</p>
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<title><![CDATA["Words, Words, Words"]]></title>
<link>http://thedasslereffect.wordpress.com/?p=218</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neil E. Das</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thedasslereffect.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/words-words-words/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The quote in the title is what Hamlet answers Polonius, I believe, when he asks him what he is readi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The quote in the title is what Hamlet answers Polonius, I believe, when he asks him what he is reading. If you are a word-lover, both of what they mean and how they are displayed, then these two stories from the BBC might be of interest. </p>
<p>First is <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7654511.stm">the story</a> of a man who read the entire Oxford English Dictionary in a year. The reading of it did not make him a word snob, however. He says:</p>
<blockquote><p>"Knowing what to call something makes me more aware of that thing. For instance, it's not terribly useful for me to know that [the sound of] leaves rustled by the trees is a psithurism. </p>
<p>"I don't want to walk down the street with my girlfriend saying: 'Listen, there's a psithurism.' But knowing it means I pay more attention to it." </p>
<p>Similarly, knowing that "undisonant" is the adjective to describe the sound of crashing waves and that "apricity" is the warmth of the winter sun brings these things more often to mind.   </p>
<p>"It's not easy to use them in conversation and so I enjoy them for their own sake. They are like one-word poems." </p></blockquote>
<p>Nice.</p>
<p>The second story, is really <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/entertainment_knowledge_of_all_fonts/html/1.stm">a photo essay</a> of sorts and shows how movie poster makers employ fonts. Fascinating. As is <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6638423.stm">this story a year or so ago</a> about the creation of the font Helvetica.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Billions, Scmillions... ]]></title>
<link>http://designdrama.wordpress.com/?p=149</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>missbethd</dc:creator>
<guid>http://designdrama.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/billions-scmillions/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember if I wrote anything here about my favorite design/nerd documentary, but if I ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can't remember if I wrote anything here about my <a href="http://www.helveticafilm.com/about.html">favorite design/nerd documentary</a>, but if I have, forgive the repeat -- go <a href="http://www.freetetris.org/welcome.html">here</a> and have an '80s game flashback.</p>
<p>I was reading several blogs, to see what other designers are saying about our economy. And I stumbled across <a href="http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=38811#comments">this post</a> -- which includes the <a href="http://designdrama.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/lehman.pdf">PDF of Lehman's Bankruptcy </a>notice.</p>
<p>The typeface of the document?</p>
<p><strong>Helvetica</strong></p>
<p>h/t: <a href="http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=38811#comments">Design Observer</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Noisy Decent Graphics: The worst kerning ever?]]></title>
<link>http://armorath.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/noisy-decent-graphics-the-worst-kerning-ever/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>armorath</dc:creator>
<guid>http://armorath.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/noisy-decent-graphics-the-worst-kerning-ever/</guid>
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The worst kerning ever?
This is freaking great via Noisy Decent Graphics: The worst kerning ever?.]]></description>
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<p>This is freaking great via <a href="http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2008/09/the-worst-kerni.html">Noisy Decent Graphics: The worst kerning ever?</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Helvetica Monopoly Set]]></title>
<link>http://range.wordpress.com/?p=4905</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>range</dc:creator>
<guid>http://range.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/helvetica-monopoly-set/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Helvetica themed monopoly set
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<title><![CDATA[The Hidden Messages in a Font]]></title>
<link>http://rhymeculture.wordpress.com/?p=263</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jlovebomb</dc:creator>
<guid>http://rhymeculture.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/the-hidden-messages-in-a-font/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Choosing the right font for the right occasion is imperative. Typically we choose to go with Times N]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Choosing the right font for the right occasion is imperative. Typically we choose to go with Times New Romans, especially when we write a collegiate paper. If we're sneaky, we might use Arial or Calibri at 12.5 font to make our essay a bit longer. If you were a font, which would you choose and why?</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.t-shirtprinting.com/images/screen_font_english.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>You are what font you use.</em></p>
<p>I came across <a href="http://flickr.com/search/show/?q=bauhaus+or+arial+or+jensen+or+neue+or+mistral+or+kristin+or+imprint+or+gill+or+courier+or+curlz+or+marker+or+garamond+or+webdings+or+didot+or+comic+or+bembo&#38;w=23682283%40N00">this image collage </a>through a friend. What does a font say about you? <strong>Lars</strong> <strong>Willem</strong> <strong>Veldkampf</strong> gives his views and attempts to answer this age-old question in a series of images explaining that using Helvetica means you are a conformist and using Gill Sans means you are the son of a stonecutter. This photo gallery is spectacularly random and intriguingly fun.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Helvetica]]></title>
<link>http://gregenemy.wordpress.com/?p=191</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Greg Enemy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://gregenemy.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/helvetica/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
I have always been super fascinated by typefaces. Everywhere you turn, everything you read, there i]]></description>
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<p>I have always been super fascinated by typefaces. Everywhere you turn, everything you read, there is some sort of typeface used to give whatever the words are a specific character...but none are more ubiquitous than Helvetica. I have been researching Helvetica a little here and there and I really think it is rather interesting.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica">Helvetica</a> is an awesome, mysterious, typeface. Its kind of non-existent if you dont pay attention. Its both boring and full of life, expressive and emotionless, bold and flat, perfect and imperfect at the same time. It is often called the "human" font. Some typographers totally despise the use of Helvetica, while others praise it as the end all-be all of typefaces. Where some find it stale, some see that it's full of flavor. What I like most about it is just that, it is so open for interpretation, and can be used to express whatever you want it to express.</p>
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<p>Helvetica is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif">sans-serif</a> font developed in Switzerland by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann in 1957. It was created to be the successor of the <a title="Akzidenz-Grotesk" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akzidenz-Grotesk">Akzidenz-Grotesk</a>font in the Swiss market. It was created to be a neutral, super legible typeface with no specific expression of it's own, but incidentally, it has gone on to take on various lives of its own. The name Helvetica is actually the Latin word for Switzerland.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/DrR-P5M1hRY'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/DrR-P5M1hRY&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Here is a clip of a few of the interviews with several world renowned typographers and their individual take on the type in the <a href="http://www.helveticafilm.com/">Helvetica documentary</a> I recently watched. I find it very interesting that such a relatively plain typeface can evoke such strong feelings with people. Some people adore it, some people think it's absolute rubbish, but whats even more interesting is most people dont even know it exists.</p>
<p>Sadly, Helvetica isn't as readily available as it used to be. It has currently been succeeded by more common <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial">Arial </a>typeface as the default typeface on most computers.</p>
<p>I suggest you rent the Helvetica documetary from somewhere if you'd like to know more about it. It was a really dope doc.</p>
<p>(Sorry if that was boring as shit...but I like typefaces!)</p>
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<link>http://sidneywebba.wordpress.com/?p=646</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sidney Webba</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sidneywebba.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/helveticas-de-prata/</guid>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As fontes estão para os designers gráficos como as cadeiras talvez estejam para os desenhistas de objetos. Representam uma era, um comportamento, uma idéia artística. A fonte Helvetica, que completou no ano passado 50 anos foi criada por Max Miedinger é um desses momentos onde o design atinge seu ponto alto. Livre de serifas, livre de tudo que não é econômico, a Helvetica foi criada para ser neutra, sem nenhum significado intrínseco. Ou é a cara da Suiça, onde foi criada, ou se transformou em um de seus principais símbolos. Aí vem esse desavisado, Zoe Ikin, e cria <a href="http://www.endemicworld.com/default.aspx?T=21&#38;P=537">broches de prata, com a Helvetica</a>, estilosos, cheios de significado, criando um delicioso equívoco semiótico. Miedinger deve estar se contorcendo de raiva. Mas eu queria um. Tudo por apenas 112 dólares.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.endemicworld.com/productimages/LARGE/ZOE081.jpg" alt="" width="355" height="355" /></p>
<p>via: updateordie.com</p>
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<link>http://thatbelongsinamuseum.wordpress.com/?p=27</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thatbelongsinamuseum.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/exhibit-c-hand-lettered-indie-movie-titles/</guid>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry it's been such a long time since I last added an exhibit to my little virtual museum. I've been really busy with...being a college student.</p>
<p>But I haven't forgotten TBiaM (do you like the cute acronym?)*, and I'm here to add a little entry on a trend I've been noticing for a very long time now.</p>
<p>We're talking about the logos for independent movies. I don't mean any movie that was made by a small independent studio, I mean movies that are in that self-consciously quirky "Indie Style", like Juno or Napoleon Dynamite. For the purpose of this article, I will refer to these as Indie Movies, as distinguished from independent movies as a whole.</p>
<p>Have you ever noticed that the trailers and posters (and usually credits) for these Indie Movies (especiallly the oddball comedy-romances) overwhelmingly use hand drawn, 10-year-old-with-a-crayon-style, lettering in their titles? Let me show you a few examples, and you'll see what I mean:</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/2213531422_1406a3a78a.jpg?v=0" alt="" /></p>
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<p><img class="alignnone" title="Squid and the Whale Titles" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UNYC4yDsL._SL500_AA280_.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="280" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.realbuzz.com/images/articles/Eagle%20vs%20Shark(0).jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://stores.homestead.com/unitedindependentmedia/catalog/Napoleon-Dynamite-DVD.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Alright, there are a boatload of other examples out there, but you see the general style. Whether cartoony block letters or marker-drawn cursive, I can understand why this sort of lettering is appropriate: it recreates the playful, irreverent, tongue-in-cheek mood found in many of these films. What I find unusual is the fact that the style has been adopted en masse across the entire genre, almost serving as an essential semiotic marker for what audiences can expect from the movie. </p>
<p>This use of a specific title typeface as a label for an entire genre is already in use for the largely inane "---Movie" parody films, eg:</p>
<p>:<img src="http://thecia.com.au/reviews/d/images/date-movie-poster-0.jpg" alt="" /><img src="http://img.tesco.com/pi/entertainment/DVD/LF/706301_DV_L_F.jpg" alt="" /><img src="http://www.impawards.com/2001/posters/not_another_teen_movie.jpg" alt="" /><img alt="" /><img src="http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CIN/epicmovie~Epic-Movie-Posters.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Here, these parody films use all-caps red block letters as a marker for the genre of movie they advertise. In a similar trend, the typeface Trajan has been used on nearly every action, adventure, or horror film produced in the last 10 years, as amusingly exposed by Kirby Ferguson:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/t87QKdOJNv8'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/t87QKdOJNv8&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Scary Movie 1 is clearly the grandfather of the red block-letter parody movie line, and Trajan as a movie font with "epic" connotations has its roots in Roman monumental inscriptions (you'd know that if you watched the youtube video!). However, the primogenitor of the hand-drawn indie movie title is less clear. </p>
<p>After some research into the chronology, I point to Napoleon Dynamite as the culprit. This oddball 2004 indie comedy predates most of the trend and was a watershed in terms of creating the quirky Indie Movie style. </p>
<p><img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p241/solarkismet/blog/gallery_Napoleon_Dynamite_1.jpg" alt="" width="219" height="226" /></p>
<p>While not among my favorite films, I believe many later movies (particularly Juno) are indebted to Napoleon Dynamite's ironically uncool characters, tongue-in-cheek tone, overload of kitschy pop-culture references, and, apparently, it's hand-drawn title card.** In the case of ND, the hand-drawn titles are a specific reference to events in the movie, namely Napoleon's eccentric drawing hobby. While this makes a drawn title font a logical choice, later movies have borrowed it's style and lettering without it's in-movie references to actual drawing. That's how we end up with hand-illustrated typefaces advertising movies that have nothing to do with actual hand-illustration. </p>
<p>Simultaneously, hand-lettering has been catching on all across the graphic design industry in advertisements, band identities, and book designs. Michael Perry has catalogued this development in his provocatively-titled book <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Hand Job</span>, which I highly recommend. I believe this increased interest in irreverent, humanistic, hand-made lettering is a Postmodern rejection of the stark, clean, mechanical typefaces of Modernism that have long dominated design until recent years. But that's a topic for another day.</p>
<p><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61zCupRAhRL._SL500_.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><span style="color:#888888;"><strong>Continuing Research:</strong></span> I believe this all fits into much larger potential research project regarding the semiotics of typefaces. While it's established design theory that typefaces can be used add a desired "tone" or "feel" to text (clean, mechanical Helvetica vs. old-world, humanist Garamond, for example), certain fonts convey a meaning of all on their own, independent of the actual content of the text. The hand-drawn lettering says, "quirky indie movie" and red block letters say "parody movie", the actual title of the film is unimportant. I'd like to explore this concept further.</p>
<p><span style="color:#888888;"><strong>Food for Thought:</strong></span> Can you think of other movie styles that adopt a fairly consistent graphical identity across the genre? How much do you personally judge the genre or tone of a movie by it's poster? Can you think of other fields of design where typography conveys an independent semiotic meaning, rather than acting purely as a vehicle of the content of the text?</p>
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<p>*This is technically not an acronym, it is an initialism. Acronyms are pronounced as a new word, like NATO or NASA. Initialisms, on the other hand are spelled out, like NBC or LSD. You learn something everyday.</p>
<p>**Some trace these characteristics back to Wes Anderson Films, contending that Napoleon Dynamite was simply a poor man's Rushmore. Still others, in turn, argue that Wes Anderson is simply a poor man's Francois Truffaut, but that's beside the point. I guess nothing's original anymore.</p>
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<link>http://thsdy.wordpress.com/?p=147</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jasonrothman</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thsdy.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/lovehate/</guid>
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<link>http://armorath.wordpress.com/?p=109</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>armorath</dc:creator>
<guid>http://armorath.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/typography-the-crystal-goblet/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I was over at the FontShop blog when i saw this link: Typo-L : The Crystal Goblet.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was over at the <a href="http://www.fontshop.com/blog/" target="_blank">FontShop blog</a> when i saw this link: <a href="http://gmunch.home.pipeline.com/typo-L/misc/ward.htm">Typo-L : The Crystal Goblet</a>.</p>
<p>It's an interest article using a crystal goblet as a metaphor for typography. I first (well, as far as i can remember) became familiar with the term when watching the <a href="http://www.helveticafilm.com/" target="_blank">Helvetica doco</a>, and so this was interesting to read.</p>
<p>To sum up: Beatrice Warde is advocating that good typography (how text is used in book design and advertising) should be like a crystal goblet is with wine, where there is nothing to get in the way of message, nothing to distract from the communication. </p>
<p>I really like this concept, especially in book design where i just want to read the story and not get stuck looking at the type. Where this falls down for me is in the boredom factor, fonts like Helvetica are often touted as being the crystal goblet as they are so common and used for so many things that they have little feeling or meaning in themselves, as i would agree. But, the other side of this is that they become very stale, and users will often overlook these messages as they look like so many other messages they see everyday. </p>
<p>So, i guess what I'm saying is i will try to create crystal goblets in my design, but also seek a certain freshness as well, whether that is by using newer types or older types in a different way... I'm not sure, but i know that i will be pushing myself. </p>
<p>thanks for listening</p>
<p>byebye - sye :)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Helvetica]]></title>
<link>http://twilightshadows.wordpress.com/?p=66</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Thobias Vemmenby</dc:creator>
<guid>http://twilightshadows.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/helvetica/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It may not be a very well known fact to people, but along with several other fetishes, I have a huge]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#ff0000;">I</span>t may not be a very well known fact to people, but along with several other fetishes, I have a huge one for typography and fonts. Because of this I spent roughly one and a half hours this evening watching a documentary about a font… Specifically about <a href="http://www.helveticafilm.com/">Helvetica</a>. In spite of all that was said back and forth, pro and con of this modernistic font, I have to say I like it. I do not subscribe to the two to three fonts for everything mode, but I still think Helvetica can be put to very good, and beautiful use.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;">O</span>ne interesting theme I did pick up in this documentary was that everyone, both yay and nay sayers, kept on pointing out how neutral Helvetica is. And yet, they are all very passionate about using, or not using, it. I tend to think that neutral things do not invoke such a passion in people. But I think that is some of the magic that is Helvetica.</p>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;">I</span>f you have even a fleeting interest in typography and design I highly recommend this film. As an added bonus to us Mac fans, all the machines showed in the movie were Macs! Not by placement, but because everyone used theme as their tool of choice.</div>
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<div><span style="color:#999999;">"<em>When using Helvetica you're never wrong, but also never right</em>."</span></div>
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<link>http://logobr.wordpress.com/?p=410</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Daniel Campos</dc:creator>
<guid>http://logobr.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/helvetica/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sou uma apaixonado por fontes, exclamação! (como diria Roberto Avallone)
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">Sou uma apaixonado por fontes, exclamação! (como diria <a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Avallone">Roberto Avallone</a>)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Elas simplesmente me fascinam. E como um bom fã, tenho sempre que me mantar atualizado com as notícias do mundo das letras. E sexta-feira, li um artigo um tanto quanto interessante (eu até diria polêmico) escrito por um português em 2007 falando sobre a fonte mais conhecida do mundo: Helvetica. Abaixo segue o artigo na integra (inclusive com a escrita de Portugal) acrescido de alguns links e imagens que tomei a liberdade de incluir. Depois darei minha opinião para iniciarmos mais uma agradável, democrática e inteligente discusão. Enjoy it!</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>PORQUE É QUE PRECISAMOS DA HELVETICA?<br />
</em></strong><em>por Paulo Heitlinger, Fev/2007</em><strong><em><br />
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">O 50º aniversário da Helvetica – uma família de fontes criada em 1957 pelo suíço Max Miedinger – foi o pretexto para rodar um documentário que ilustra a expansão do conhecido typeface. Reacende-se uma polémica que já vem de alguns anos atrás e que merece a pena retomar. Vejamos porquê.</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Quando o editor suíço Lars Müller publicou o seu livrinho <em>Hommage to Helvetica</em> (que entretanto está à venda a bom preço nas lojas da FNAC), argumentava que "<em>este typeface sabe fazer tudo, e é neste aspecto que é genial ... Tive vontade de publicar este livro para reagir contra a  inflação das fontes. Temos hoje cerca de 30.000 fontes, mas que não servem para grande coisa. Em vez de inventar novas fontes, valia mais renovar a tipografia com as fontes existentes. É este o caminho para o qual aponta o sucesso da Helvetica</em>".</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Em resposta a Lars Müller, tenho a argumentar que para um suíço a Helvetica pode servir para muitas aplicações, mas para mim não serve para grande coisa, pois falta-lhe qualquer personalidade tipográfica. <em>Ça manque du charme</em>, diriam os franceses. Temos milhares de fontes disponíveis para as mais variadas aplicações, de modo que a questão pertinente será: Para que é que nós precisamos ainda dessa letra de horripilante estética, criada à cinquenta anos para atender às necessidades de clientes à procura de uma letra "despersonalizada", "neutra", apta a garantir-lhes um fácil acesso a um mercado global?</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://logobr.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/livro-helvetica.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-411 aligncenter" title="livro-helvetica" src="http://logobr.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/livro-helvetica.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="268" /></a></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;"><em>[Será a fonte Helvetica mais conhecida que a Suíça? Inventada na Basileia há 50 anos, este typeface já conheceu duas reformas e vários revivalismos. Objecto de culto entre jovens gráficos sem grande inspiração e propensos a trends globais, a Helvetica mereceu as honras do livro Helvetica, Homage To A Typeface, que rapidamente esgotou a primeira edição. Pouco maior que um passaporte helvético, e como este de capa vermelha, com um H em vez da cruz branca, este livrinho reúne centenas de fotos a ilustrar a omnipresença deste tipo, utilizado tanto para logótipos de multinacionais como a Panasonic, a Texaco, a Samsung, a Hoover, a Lufthansa, a Kawasaki, a Evian, a Agip, a BMW e a Caterpillar, como para sinaléticas urbanas, de Hong-Kong até Istambul.]</em></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;"><em>O TREND DA GLOBALIZAÇÃO PERSISTE</em></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">A resposta, embora não goste dela, é simples. Em pleno século XXI, a Helvetica continua em uso, por força do persistente revivalismo que nos atinge há anos. O conceituado designer e crítico canadiano <a href="http://shinntype.com/">Nick Shinn</a>, denunciando os maléficos efeitos da <em>authority of mass fashion</em>, escreveu: "<em>A Helvetica regressou em grande. Na rua, vemo-la em campanhas publicitárias de empresas tão diferentes como a IBM e The Gap. Nas vendas online, está sempre no topo das listas das fontes mais vendidas..."</em></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-412" title="cartaz-filme" src="http://logobr.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/cartaz-filme.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="284" /></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><em>[Posters do filme Helvetica]</em></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">A fonte que o typeface designer e ensaísta Nick Shinn apelida com toda a pertinência de <em>face of uniformity</em> tem vindo a ocupar posições para as quais nunca foi concebida, mas os designers contemporâneos, com medo de afirmar as suas raizes culturais e os contextos regionais, preferem a "fonte sem personalidade". Nunca uma fonte tão estéril, de tão fraca legibilidade e pobre estética teve uma proliferação tão virulenta – nefastos efeitos da globalização em princípios do século XXI... (Não perca o artigo de Nick Shinn em <a href="www.shinntype.com/Stories/Uniformity.pdf">www.shinntype.com/Stories/Uniformity.pdf</a>)</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;"><em>HISTORIAL DA HELVETICA</em></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">A Helvetica é a fonte mais associada à tipografia a suíça do pós-guerra e à "Escola Internacional", por causa da sua crónica falta de personalidade. Surgiu nos anos 50, na conjuntura de recuperação económica depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Inúmeras empresas alemãs e suíças, ávidas de se lançarem de novo nos mercados internacionais, precisavam de uma letra clara, neutral, moderna, internacional, com boas relações com todos os países e culturas – com as características da Suíça, portanto...</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">O importante era que essa letra fosse "moderna" e que não tivesse qualquer associação nacional, ou qualquer ligação cultural específica. Especialmente na Alemanha do pós-guerra procurava-se uma fonte neutra, que não lembrasse o vergonhoso passado nazi do país, que, agora "democratizado" de fachada, o queria ultrapassar o mais depressa possível. O tipo eleito pelas empresas multinacionais foi a Helvetica, a fonte da globalização dos anos 60 e 70 (e, como já veremos, também do século XXI).</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-415" title="simle_helvetica1" src="http://logobr.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/simle_helvetica1.jpg" alt="" width="324" height="291" /></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em>[Smile for Helvetica]</em></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Nos anos 20 e 30, tinham sido os adeptos da Bauhaus os que exigiam uma tipografia universal, apta para todas as aplicações, todos os fins, todos os idiomas e todas culturas. Nessa época, as reivindicações dos vanguardistas causaram pouca ressonância; muito mais tarde, depois da guerra, a indústria e o comércio tinham finalmente captado a mensagem, e exigiam: "Venha uma letra universal!"</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">A Helvetica foi desenhada para ser uma versão modernizada da Akzidenz Grotesk (propriedade da H. Berthold AG). Começou por ser comercializada como Neue Haas Grotesk, por se tratar de uma reformulação da Haas Grotesk (propriedade da fundição Haas, a empresa que encarregou Max Miedinger de modernizar a fonte).</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><a href="http://logobr.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/akzidenzgroteskspec.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-419 aligncenter" title="akzidenzgroteskspec" src="http://logobr.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/akzidenzgroteskspec.png" alt="" width="396" height="468" /></a><em>[Akzidenz-Grotesk]</em></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">A primeira versão foi apresentada em 1957, na feira Graphic 57, realizada em Lausanne. Esta fonte, então chamada Helvetia, foi introduzida no mercado paralelamente à famosa Univers, de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Frutiger">Adrian Frutiger</a>.</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;"><a href="http://logobr.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/univers.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-421" title="univers" src="http://logobr.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/univers.png" alt="" width="450" height="531" /></a></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><em>[Univers]</em></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Pouco depois, a fundição alemã D. Stempel AG comprou os direitos da Helvetia, adicionou-lhe vários pesos e graus de condensado e rebaptizou-a com o nome de Helvetica, relançando-a em 1961. Nessa época, já 50% do capital da D. Stempel AG se encontrava em posse da Linotype AG, representando dentro do grupo Linotype o sector de "tipos metálicos de fundição" para composição tradicional, manual – a fotocomposição tinha começado por volta do ano de 1955.</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">A  Helvetica não teve por auxiliar de parto um conceito estrutural como aquele que Adrian Frutiger inteligentemente deu à sua Univers, quando inventou uma sistemática numérica para calibrar os pesos e graus de condensação/expansão. Esta falta de sistemática reflectiu-se na pobre estética das variantes e tornou necessário um redesign, lançado como Neue Helvetica em 1980.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-417" title="filme_helvetica" src="http://logobr.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/filme_helvetica.jpg" alt="" width="381" height="700" />[Imagens do filme]</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;"><em>SUCESSO MUNDIAL</em></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;">Apesar destes entraves, a Helvetica foi a fonte de maior sucesso nos anos 60 e 70 – pelo menos, foi a fonte mais usada. Substituiu rapidamente a antiga Akzidenz Grotesk de 1897, que, no jocoso dizer de Erik Spieker- mann, já mostrava "muitas rugas".</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">A sua falta de personalidade nacional ou regional – é com todo o direito que é chamada "a fonte sem carácter" – foi por vezes compensada pelo emprego de cor, por exemplo, em posters publicitários. De resto, a imaginação criativa dos que optaram pela Helvetica ficava reduzida a explorar as formas acentuadamente geométricas, a compor em ângulos diagonais e/ou a tirar partido da vasta gama de pesos e cortes da letra que passou a ser a fonte universal e global da segunda metade do século XX .</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;"><em>A FONTE DAS MULTINACIONAIS</em></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">A partir da década de 1960, inúmeras empresas internacionais adoptaram a Helvetica para a sua comunicação. A Lufthansa, a conselho de Otl Aicher, adoptou-a para Corporate Typeface. A KLM,  a American Airlines e outras companhias aéreas seguiram este trend. Depois veio a BASF, consórcio químico-farmacêutico que nessa época já ocupava em todo o globo 300 oficinas de impressão, além de inúmeras agências de publicidade. Também os consórcios Bayer e Hoechst, outros dois gigantes do ramo químico, passaram a usar a Helvetica em qualquer parte do mundo onde fizessem negócio. No ramo automóvel, seguiram-se a Opel e depois a BMW, que usa hoje uma fonte parecida com a Helvetica. A MAN e a AEG optaram igualmente pelo "tipo sem características".</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-416" title="helvatica-sucks" src="http://logobr.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/helvatica-sucks.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="274" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>[Pra quem não gosta]</em></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Decididamente, a omnipresente Helvetica passou a ser conotada como uma fonte "moderna, progressista, cosmopolita, internacional". Mas na realidade, continuou a ser uma fonte de pobre estética, pacatamente burguesa, estridentemente aborrecida, sem charme, sem elegância – e falha de qualquer temperamento, vitalidade ou emoção. Por isso mesmo, a Helvetica foi a campeã do Estilo Internacional, opção preferida por mestres do desenho gráfico, como os suíços Max Bill e Josef Müller-Brockmann. Passados 45 anos depois da introdução, a Linotype listava 115 diferentes membros da família de fontes Helvetica hoje presente no mercado ...um longo bocejo tipográfico.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://logobr.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/hel-arial-univers.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-420" title="hel-arial-univers" src="http://logobr.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/hel-arial-univers.jpg" alt="" width="248" height="600" /></a></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><em>[Comparação]</em></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;"><em>UM FALGELO CHAMADO ARIAL</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A Helvetica tem sido violentamente pirateada – outra expressão da sua ubiquidade e popularidade. Quem não queria investir no produto original, comprava um dos múltiplos clones, muito mais  baratos: cópias  ainda piores que o original, chamadas "Swiss", "Geneve", "Zürich", etc. De mal a pior, a degradação continuou quando a ainda jovem Microsoft decidiu poupar-se a aquisição da Helvetica e encomendou, em 1982, a fonte Arial à Monotype. A Arial, um dos Windows core fonts, integrados no pacote do sistema operativo, é outra fonte de inigualável banalidade e consegue ser mais feia que o original. Entretanto, até a Microsoft já notou isso; na nova versão do Windows, a Helvetica e a Times já não fazem parte dos core fonts...<br />
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-423" title="hel_arial" src="http://logobr.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/hel_arial.png" alt="" width="294" height="228" /></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;"><em>[A matriz e a cópia]</em></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;"><em></em>Por fim, falta responder à pergunta feita no título deste artigo: Para nada.</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom:0;">Filme: www.helveticafilm.com<br />
Entrevista: www.aiga.org/content.cfm/lights-camera-helvetica</p>
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<p class="western" align="justify">Agora quem fala sou eu, Daniel! =)</p>
<p class="western" align="justify">Direto e reto: gosto da Helvetica. De verdade, gosto mesmo! Acho que mesmo sem "frufrus", ela tem personalidade. Creio que a personalidade dela é exatamente essa: "não ter nada demais".</p>
<p class="western" align="justify">Nós damos de cara com essa fonte quase todos os dias, somos bombardeados por ela mesmo sem percebermos. Marcas que usamos e desejamos, admiramos ou repudiamos usam a dita cuja. Basf, American AirLines (wou! ainda serei cliente de vocês!), Panasonic, Jeep, LG, Microsoft, BMW, Lufthansa, Mitsubishi, Texaco, 3M, e muitas outras.</p>
<p class="western" align="justify">Depois de ler esse artigo na sexta, passei o final de semana com a minha atenção voltada pra isso, pra ver propositalmente o alcance do tipo. Fiquei pasmo! As placas de transido, as lojas na 13 de Maio e no Cambuí, as milhares de placas de candidatos, letreiros, totens, outdoors, escolas, textos publicitários, as placas de mesa aqui no escritório... é uma loucura! Praticamente em quase todo o lugar que se olha, eu encontro a tal da Helvetica “me olhando”.</p>
<p class="western" align="justify">Não que eu tenho reparado nisso somente agora, mas nunca havia mensurado (ou pelo menos tentado) como ela é usada. Percebo que a Helvetica vai muito além do que o Paulo Heitlinger falou. Essa "febre" se estende a todos os humildes e reles mortais que quando abrem o Word, a fonte default é a ARIAL (lê-se "bastardinha da Helvetica”).</p>
<p class="western" align="justify">No meu caso, essa fonte já está impregnada dentro do meu cérebro, os meus olhos nem respondem mais a palavras com ela... oh céus, estou num caminho sem volta! Quando parei pra pensar nisso (sim sim, eu fiz uma pequena meditação sobre uma fonte tipográfica!) pude ter a certeza: se todos nós escrevêssemos como "um computador", nossa grafia seria a Helvetica. Creio que isso que acontece comigo (não sei se com todos vocês também) é resultado do que o Paulo citou: ela é a fonte do século XX.</p>
<p class="western" align="justify">Apenas não concordo. Categoricamente. com uma afirmação dele: de que a Helvetica seja "fraca de legibilidade". Isso, ao meu ver, é um absurdo. Por ser tão "limpa", de formas extremamente geométricas e de ótima relação altura x largura, ela é de perfeita legibilidade. Claro que, faço essa defesa em casos onde a fonte é usada em textos artísticos. Sobre textos longos, <a href="http://http://logobr.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/qual-tipografia-certa-texto-longo/">minhas convicções estão aqui</a>. As demais afirmações são totalmente passíveis de análise.</p>
<p class="western" align="justify">E vocês pessoal: qual sua opinião? Concorda totalmente com o Paulo? Qual sua análise técnica da Helvetica?</p>
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<p class="western" align="justify"><span style="font-size:xx-small;">NOTA: as imagens comparação Arial x Helvetica, comparação Grotesk-Helvetica-Univers 55, Univers e Grotesk e palavras linkadas foram disponibilizados por este blog para maior conforto e compreensão de seus leitores. Todo o restante do texto redigido por Paulo Heitlinger, está em sua versão integral, sem qualquer alteração.</span></p>
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<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[While eating my tasty toasted veggie sandwich from Quiznos last Friday, I looked down to start readi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Quiznos Menu Using Helvetica" href="http://designspotting.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/img_31591.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="size-medium wp-image-28 alignleft" style="margin:8px 3px;" title="Quiznos Menu Using Helvetica" src="http://designspotting.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/img_31591.jpg?w=116" alt="" width="116" height="300" /></a>While eating my tasty toasted veggie sandwich from Quiznos last Friday, I looked down to start reading the packaging it came in and the menu that came with it. I was immediately greeted by Helvetica.</p>
<p>Helvetica appeared on both the packaging and menu (and after further investigation, most of their printed collateral material). While "Mmmmm...Toasty" is a thing of Quiznos' past, the use of Helvetica in their designs is in.</p>
<p>Quiznos, well known for its tasty toasted sub sandwiches, has (in my mind) done a fairly decent job of keeping their designs (print, web and commercials) clean, simple, readable and appealing to the masses. And these 4 points (coincidentally enough) are very similar points that are made for designers who are Pro Helvetica (it is clean, simple, readable and appealing to the masses).</p>
<p>While using Helvetica isn't much of a typographic risk (in this instance), the use of it here is quite conceivable. Some designs might require a unique typeface to get dominate the space and get the emotional message across. However, using Helvetica on this menu compliments the design and keeps the focus on the tasty photo (minus the meat) and message.</p>
<p>There is a time and place to use Helvetica, and Quiznos has landed on theirs.</p>
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More brilliant than the font HELVETICA itself, is the idea of making this movie: about a font. 
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More brilliant than the font HELVETICA itself, is the idea of making this movie: about a font. </p>
<p>Thank you Erica, for suggesting this film. I definitely recommend it to everyone who has anything to do with design, as well as anyone who is aware of the aesthetics of our surroundings. You can watch some clips <a title="Helvetica film" href="http://www.helveticafilm.com/clips.html">here</a>, at the film's main site: <a href="http://www.helveticafilm.com">HelveticaFilm.com</a></p>
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In a nutshell, this great documentary film by Gary Hustwit, is about the most used and famously known font - Helvetica - combined with some short, interesting and entertaining interviews with those that swim in the field of type. There and the pros, the cons and the synthesis of the two.</p>
<p>What do I think of the font now, after seeing the movie? Well, maybe I should start with what I thought of the font before the movie. I never thought about it. Period. I took it for granted, like most of us, and as a designer, I hardly ever used it - although I am of those people that use only a couple of fonts, anyway. The reason I never use Helvetica, is because I don't think it goes well with my style of art. As an illustrator, I was always very annoyed when I had to add type to my designs, and I was very aware that this needed special handling. Typography for illustrators, I used to call it (and still do) - can be very exciting, but probably not while using Helvetica.</p>
<p>One of the designers interviewed (sorry, I don't remember who said that), mentioned some thing like this: that the font Helvetica brings with it, or even dictates, the kind of aesthetic atmosphere or solution around it. It needs the clean space. The air. No wonder why colorful complex and busy forms need something different.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, although I'm not a fan, it really does not bother me that most of the logos of the big and successful companies have their name written in Helvetica. I don't think it's "too much" or overused. It works for me. It's readable (I tend to vote for readability in type). I'm even willing to try it here and there - you see, Lucinda Grande, is my favorite "simple" font ;-)</p>
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