Kategorie: Design & Typografie

Jaaa – ich habe ihn endlich gesehen! Den »Helvetica«-Film von Gary Hustwit. Und er ist toll! Ich konnte ihn beim ersten Ansehen kaum genießen, weil ich ständig Pause machen musste, um mir die ganzen wunderbaren Zitate mitzuschreiben. Hier eine Auswahl…

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is to cure it somehow, with design.

Massimo Vignelli

We think typography is black and white. Typography is really white, it’s not even black. It is the space between the blacks that really makes it. In a sense it’s like music, it’s not the notes, it’s the space you put between the notes that makes the music.

Massimo Vignelli

You can say ‘I love you’ in Helvetica. And you can say it with Helvetica Extra Light if you want to be really fancy. Or you can say it in Extra Bold if it’s really intensive and passionate, and it might work.

Massimo Vignelli

Creating order is typography.

Wim Crouwel

Helvetica has almost like a perfect balance of push and pull in its letters, and that perfect balance sort of is saying to us—well it’s not sort of, it is saying to us—: Don’t worry, any of the problems you’re having, or problems in the world, or problems getting through the subway or finding a bathroom… all those problems aren’t going to spill over, they’ll be contained, and in fact maybe they don’t exist.

Leslie Savan

I’m obviously a typomaniac, which is an incurable, if not mortal, disease.

Erik Spiekermann

Und noch ein Spiekermann-Zitat, das ich für Helvetica nicht unterschreiben will, aber es passt doch sehr gut auf gewisse andere Schriftarten… Suppenhuhn *hust*

Most people who use Helvetica use it because it’s ubiquitous. It’s like going to McDonalds instead of thinking about food. Because it’s there, it’s on every street corner. So let’s eat crap, because it’s on the corner.

Erik Spiekermann

Weiterführende Links:
Helvetica (offizielle Website des Films)