Easy
2010
0801
http://www.vimeo.com/13670440
Norman Palm – Easy
Urbanized
2010
0729
Helvetica, which looked at the worlds of typography and graphic design, and their impact on our visual environment. […] Objectified, which focused on industrial design and product design, and our relationship with the manufactured objects that surround us. […] Urbanized looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design, featuring some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
Urbanized, a documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
Empire St. Pauli
2010
0724
Empire St. Pauli – von Perlenketten und Platzverweisen, ein Dokumentarfilm von Irene Bude und Olaf Sobczak.
I have never used Helvetica
2010
0706
In my whole career in typography, starting with my apprenticeship, I have never used Helvetica. Being a Swiss typographer, it’s always been Univers.
Vignelli said that Helvetica was a Modernist typeface – No! No! Helvetica is anything but Modernist, Clearly it has its roots in Akzidenz Grotesk and that was designed in 1899, which is Victorian as far as I am concerned. Akzidenz is a fantastic font but it’s not Modernist, it’s got a really antique feel about it, which again shows that Max Miedinger [Helvetica’s designer] didn’t have a clue about type design. He was the salesman at [foundry] Haas’sche Schriftgießerei for Christ’s sake.
People just use Helvetica because they have heard of it, it’s on everyone’s computer and everyone else uses it.
It’s very much like that, a bit like Julia Roberts – pretty enough but…
When people choose a typeface it’s not a rational decision, it’s completely emotional. They home in on details and say ‘I love that, that’s why I’m going to use it’. But then they want a rational explanation to tell their client. We’re hoping with this that people will react positively to it and that it can do everything that Helvetica isn’t doing … and in the process I get very very rich!
Bruno Maag in The Helvetica killer
Monkey 47
2010
0614
«Gin aus dem Schwarzwald von Christoph Keller und Alexander Stein»
Black Forest Distillers – Monkey 47
Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2009
2010
0608
Zwischen iPad und Kindle, Apps und Downloads stellt die Schweiz souverän The Future Issue – die Dokumentation der 30 schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2009. Weil es schöne Bücher mit allen E-Medien aufnehmen und sich einen Platz in Hand und Herz von Lesern sichern – vielleicht im Gegensatz zu lieblos gemachten Druckerzeugnissen. Aber die finden sowieso nicht den Weg ins Finale des Wettbewerbs um die schönsten Schweizer Bücher.
Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2009
(«Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher» Ausstellungseröffnung: Samstag, 12. Juni 2010 mit «Die neue Polis» und anderen tollen Büchern)
A Love Letter For You
2010
0603
http://www.vimeo.com/10507724
Steve Powers aka ESPO – A Love Letter For You
(A Love Letter For You in detail)
Zuschauerquoten
2010
0504
Die SRG sollte im Prinzip einzig darauf verpflichtet werden, das zu produzieren bzw. ermöglichen, was nicht oder noch nicht im Mainstream angekommen ist. Alles was erfolgreich ist, im Bezug auf die Zuschauer- bzw. Zuhörerquoten soll an die privaten Übergeben werden.
youth cultural movement
2010
0504
We are the other side of a highly scrutinized and publicized youth cultural movement. One that doesn’t fit, one that likes to see things and speak of these things for what they are and not for what we would be paid for. You may not always agree with or like what we have to say but we all feel that it is important for the sake of our own sanity to bring back this platform. If anything, it gives us all a good excuse to meet up and drink.
welcome back!
Zeugen Helveticas
2010
0501
Zeugen Helveticas: Grafiker.
auch gut im kontext:
Die zwei sahen aus wie ganz normale junge, schlanke Männer. Maschinenkurze Haare. Propere dunkelblaue Pullis. Jeans. Helle Turnschuhe. Ich dachte: Zeugen Helveticas: Grafiker.
That’s Entertainment
2010
0420
Paul Weller & Noel Gallagher – That’s Entertainment
days of speed and slow time mondays
pissing down with rain on a boring wednesday
watching the news and not eating your tea
a freezing cold flat with damp on the walls
The Jam – That’s Entertainment