Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Amazon.com: Helvetica is not only the preferred typeface of leading professionals, it is also an all-time favourite among the multitude of codes, signals and signs that flavour urban life. This book sings the praises of the honest worker and solo entertainer of typefaces, Helvetica, and of its forgotten creator and all those who have contributed to its unparalleled international march of triumph over the past forty years. Filled with pages of color images of Helvetica in use, from album covers and road signs to advertisements and product packaging, the designs gathered together in honor of Helvetica have been created by superb designers and anonymous amateurs from all over the world. The result is an exciting collection of this icon of modern design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mark C. Taylor has written a philosophical and intellectual text with an experimental layout that is concerned with surfaces, postmodernism and theology. Intermingling text and image from multiple sources, he divided the book into chapters that are titled "Skinc(r)apes, Dermagraphics, De-signing, Ground Zero, Interfacing." The book includes an extensive section on tattooing. Photographic colored reproductions of fashion advertisements form a section of the book. Jack Miles introductory essay "How to Read This Book" is subtitled "A Note to the Reader from a Concerned Friend." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

One copy is printed in German and the other in English. Walter Siegfried in an essay, "It is hard to make someone laugh," reproduces analog recordings of the breathing pattern during laughter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pamphlet has English summaries of the German texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

One copy is printed in German and the other in English. This issue includes an illustrated essay dealing with the Bibliothek von Wolfenbuttel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The graphic work of Seymour Chwast is featured. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book "collects and celebrates" selected ephemera, posters, announcements, flyers and objects from the dance culture in England from 1985 to 1995. The artistic styles vary from psychodelic to pop to minimal to punk to concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The 112 contributors to this book provided artworks or poems based upon the letter 'T', printed one to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a review of the work of the design agency Cahan & Asociates. Ken Coupland contributes an essay "What Does Design Matter." Several annual reports created by Cahan & Associates are described and illustrated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is designed and published by the author. Using paradox and parody he "graphically portrays the never-ending quarrel over the use of illegible and unconventional typography." Aphorisms by several noted designers are presented by Skjei in creative typographic forms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poster depicts the text of the title printed in deconstructed letterforms over a stylized beating heart with psychedelic colors in the type and background. This is an example of the "new typography of the nineties." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A summary in English dealing with the themes of this issue is provided at the end. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.