Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.
Helveticafilm.com
Want more? Check out Hustwit's (same director) newest documentary, Objectified, which examines how industrial design affects our lives.
Untitled, 2003
Paper plates, Glue, Dimensions variable
Untitled (Detail)
Strata, 2000-2001
White glue, 45' 9 1/2" x 20' 1/2" x 1/8"
Strata (Detail)
Untitled, 2003
Styrofoam cups, Hot glue, 6' x 20' x 19' 2"
Untitled (Detail)
Haze, 2003
Plastic drinking straws, 12' 7" x 42' 2" x 7 3/4"
Haze (Detail)
Tara Donovan makes I-can-do-that sculptures by taking a household item—a Styrofoam cup, straight pin, drinking straw, or toothpick—and positioning it among thousands of its ilk. You could do it, but you wouldn't. You wouldn't log hundreds of hours meticulously assembling, arranging, affixing, or otherwise conjoining countless identical consumer goods. The results, when seen from afar, offer gestalt experiences that, paradoxically, often conjure natural associations, with, for example, waves, clouds, and mountains.
Brian Sholis
Artforum.com
See more of her work
here.
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