WHUT/ITVS presents Community Cinema [DC]: HELVETICA December 4, 2008

How did a typeface drawn by a little-known Swiss designer become one of the most popular ways for us to communicate our words more than 50 years later? And what are the repercussions of that popularity? Has it resulted in the globalization of our visual culture? How do we interact with type on a daily basis? And what about the effects of technology on type and graphic design and the ways we consume it? Most of us use computers and digital fonts every day, so are we all graphic designers now, in a sense?
Director Gary Hustwit sets out to answer these questions and to look at the past 50 years of graphic design in order to make people who aren’t in the design trade think about the words that surround them and the effect that typefaces have on the way we process those words.

WHAT'S YOUR TYPE?

No Admission fee. RESERVE via email - [email protected] - or call 202-939-0794.

Community Partners:
WHUT
Busboys and Poets
Social Action and Leadership School for Activists

For more information, visit www.pbs.org/independentlens/getinvolved and www.communitycinema-dc.org.Tickets: http://www.communitycinema-dc.org

Official Website: https://spongecell.com/event_page/view/686244