Movies: Typography
- 2007
Helvetica (2007)
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Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way t...
- 2023
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s) (2023)
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Documentary on the French graphic and visual artist and designer, editor, artistic director, and teacher who is known for his widely-used fonts....
- 2023
Máquinas de palabras (2023)
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- 2017
The Gutenberg Enigma (2017)
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A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but also an enthusiastic inventor, a daring businessman, a tenacious troublemaker: the life of Johannes Gutenberg (circa 1400-68)....
- 2013
The History of Typography (2013)
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A short, educational animation about the history of fonts and typography. In a paper cutout stop-motion style, it begins with Gutenberg's creation of the first typeface, travels through the innovations of Jenson, Caslon, and Bodoni, to the modern cre...
- 2016
Il fiume ha sempre ragione (2016)
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Alberto Casiraghy and Josef Weiss are true bibliophile artists. One in Osnago, the other in Mendrisio, they have been dedicating themselves for years to valuable editorial and typographical activities, still printing with mobile characters, preservin...
- 1979
Hollywood at Last! (1979)
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Dedicated Dutch graphic designer Piet Schreuders visits Los Angeles to investigate all kinds of typeface as used in title-credits for movies and TV-series, letters on billboards, shop-windows or street-signs, the banner-headlines of The Los Angeles T...
- 2017
Pressing On: The Letterpress Film (2017)
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Why has letterpress printing survived? Irreplaceable knowledge of the historic craft is in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. Fascinating personalities intermix with wood, metal, and type as young printers save a traditional process in Press...
- 1992
Letters O, P, and R (1992)
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Words that start with the letter O, P, and R. A typographic animation....
- 2017
Hanzi (2017)
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Hanzi is a documentary exploring international design, visual culture, and identity through the lens of modern Chinese typography. The film covers a variety of topics such as how languages shape identity, and what role handwriting plays in the digita...
- 2009
Lettera22 (2009)
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A documentary film about Adriano Olivetti....
- 1991
Ake & Ch (1991)
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Words that end in -ake and start with ch-. A typographic animation....