Christine and I just watched the documentary Helvetica and we both found it very interesting and enjoyable. The movie talks about the origin on the font, how its use and perception have changed over the years and has interviews with a number of designers on their feelings and uses of the font. Some of the designers were pretty ecentric!
When the movie was over we had this quick discussion like this:
Brian: “I though it was interesting.”
Christine: “It makes me never want to use Helvetica again.”
Brian: “Really? ‘Cause I was thinking of going and trying to use it on something.”
Christine did like the film. She just feels like the font is too corporate/mainstream.
I loved the soundtrack after only 3 songs in and was excited to hear some bands I’ve gotten into recently such as The Album Leaf and Battles later on in the film.
