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Overview
Syllabus
1. Helvetica
- Opening (with Manfred Schulz)
- Massimo Vignelli
- Graphic design in the 1950s
- Amsterdam and Wim Crouwel
- Matthew Carter
- The Helvetica story
- Linotype
- Widgco
- Hoefler and Frere-Jones
- Berlin and Erik Spiekermann
- Type's
- Lars Muller
- Paula Scher
- Stefan Sagmeister
- David Carson
- Experimental Jetset
- Michael C. Place
- Norm
- Democratization
- What we have now
- Massimo Vignelli
- Wim Crouwel
- Matthew Carter
- Mike Parker
- Otmar Hoefer and Bruno Steinert
- Hermann Zapf
- Hoefler and Frere-Jones
- Erik Spiekermann
- Neville Brody
- Michael Bierut
- Paula Scher
- Stefan Sagmeister
- David Carson
- Experimental Jetset
- Michael C. Place
- Norm
- Rick Poynor
Taught by
Gary Hustwit
