Helvetica forever : story of a typeface / by Victor Malsy [editor]
Publisher: Baden : Lars Müller, 2009Description: 160p. ill. [chiefly col.] 26 cm001: 12614ISBN: 3037781211Subject(s): Typography | Type fontsDDC classification: 686.2247 MALItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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686.224 TYP Type specimen book: 544 different typefaces with over 3000 sizes shown in complete alphabets | 686.2247 FRI Univers by Adrian Frutiger | 686.2247 JON Sans serif : the ultimate sourcebook of classic and contemporary sans serif typography / | 686.2247 MAL Helvetica forever : story of a typeface / | 686.2247 MUL Helvetica : homage to typeface / | 686.225 AMB Basic Design : Layout / | 686.225 AMB Basic Design : Layout / |
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Designed in 1957, the Helvetica font is an icon of Swiss graphic design, which was a model of sober, functional communication throughout the world in the 1950s and 60s. The balanced and neutral appearance of Helvetica forgoes a high degree of expressivity - a quality for which it is both criticized and admired. This polarization has helped to gain it unparalleled notoriety. Helvetica is far and away the most widely used of all typefaces; according to a survey by the Berliner Fontshop-Archiv, it tops the list of the hundred best fonts of all time. This publication retraces Helvetica's fifty-year history, compares it to the well-known sans serif fonts of the twentieth century, and examines the phenomenon of its unparalleled spread. Numerous illustrations show a multitude of ways the font has been used in five decades from a wide variety of fields - from signal design to party flyers. AUTHOR: Lars Muller was born in Oslo 1955 and has been living in Switzerland since 1963. After doing his apprenticship as a graphic designer, and years of apprenticeship and travel in the USA and Holland, he opened a studio in Baden in 1982. In 1983, Lars Müller began publishing books on typography, design, art photography, and architecture. ILLUSTRATIONS 150 images
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