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This is Samuel Luescher's personal website. Sam is 27, from Switzerland, studies Visual Communication and is now back to Basel after a semester in New York City and recently completed his studies in Visual Communication with the diploma. For the time being he is living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

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Tags Design, Letterforms, Kurios, Feiern

This will hardly win a Hot Typography News prize, but here's yet another blog post about the premiere of Gary Hustwit's Helvetica film in Zürich, earlier this year, where I also attended the panel discussion.

For everyone who hasn't heard yet, in this lengthy informative monologue Spiekermann explains, once and for all, why Steve Jobs is to blame that even your mother uses Arial for her birthday invitations. Blame my spy cam for the sound quality.

People who don't see the point in discussing letterforms, this video might change your mind. Not.

Published by Sam – 03 May 2007 @ 06:33 PM
Last edited by Sam – 03 May 2007 @ 10:25 PM
Birthday Crèmeschnitte. The Zürich design scene celebrates Helvetica's 50th birthday, and themselves.

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Sam

04 May 2007 @ 11:24 AM

I don't feel like writing a transcript of the video, since a less polemic explanation is readily available.

stefan
http://www.ottwerk.net/

04 May 2007 @ 03:30 AM

Indeed

The sound *does* suck. Actually, I hardly understood anything. Plus, worrying about your font is so non-LaTeX, I can't even begin to care. Still, I'd like to get my hands on that cake...

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