I'm sure it will come as no surprise that the villain is: Helvetica.
Just finished watching a documentary on, yes, Helvetica, and I really enjoyed it. You know, not only does Netflix rock for renting movies, they rock for helping to produce documentaries via their Red Envelope initiative. I mean, how else are you going to get money to make a documentary about a friggin' typeface?
And an excellent documentary it was: they talked to old school typographers, young typographers, people who hate Helvetica with a passion, people who embrace Helvetica... and intersperse it with examples of Helvetica throughout the world, some good, some bad.
The editing was great, the music was very good, cinematography was excellent. I guess, given that this is basically a documentary on graphic design, they couldn't afford not to have a top-notch visual style in their film.
No, I couldn't sell either Maria or my mom on watching this with me. Oh well, their loss, it's not for them.
Helvetica documentary home page
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