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Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsHelvetica Typeface
Hello, I need to know as much and as much important information about this typeface helvetica , i need to learn about it , does anyone have a good yt ideos too?
This is what i need . A brief history and its developement. Use reerences such as Max Meidinger, swiss type design and modernist. Remember the need for an international , visual anguage that would help to rebuild and redesign the world after difficulties of the 2nd world war.
Talk about the design o the typeface, what aclassification of the type does it fall into. What does it look like.... remember the distinc of the negative spaces and counters that 'hold' typeface together.
What doe the type say what and who uses the ont . If a company was to se the type what would they be saying about their company.
It should cover 3 pages in the book and i should use techical descriptions where necessary .
Bdw wikipedia is not good as the teacher said
If anyone can help i would really appriciate it . thank you.
2 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 PointsThere's a book for that http://www.amazon.com/Helvetica-Forever-Typeface-Lars-Muller/dp/3037781211/
But in case that's more depth than you wanted there's also
- http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/4123
- https://multimediaman.wordpress.com/tag/history-of-helvetica/
- http://www.lynda.com/Design-Typography-tutorials/Helvetica/168234-2.html
If you need more vocabulary to talk about type:
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointshere is a documentary on helvetica. Its pretty cool. I watched it a while back on netflix. It isnt just about the font, it discusses other stuff like how typefaces affect our lives etc etc.
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 Pointsthank you :)
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsAurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsO wow , thats really nice. Cant wait to learn about it , it seem intresting now.. And i really like that Lynda.com have it , didnt use that site for while now. That really helpful .thank you .
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsAurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsSo i have another question , i posted it here https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/helvetica-typeface-come-from .