Helvetica: The Movie

I never thought anybody would make a movie about a font!
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Helvetica, a documentary is being released.
The movie promises to examine the world of typography, graphic design and global visual culture.
The Helvetica Movie is being directed by the Producer of the Moog Documentary and the Wilco Docementary, and will feature a boatload of interviews with people who are superstars in the graphic design-world. (Stefan Sagmeister, Tobias Frere-Jones, Jonathan Hoefler and Erik Speikermann, to name a few.)

Helvetica (and its bastard cousin Arial) are like the cosmic microwave background radiation of the typographic universe, it's so ubiquitous, you hardly notice it. It's nice to see someone pointing it out!
Helvetica: The Movie!

Camping Out On Cookie Mountain

(File under: judging a book by its cover.)
I Recently picked up TV on the Radio's new record, "Return to Cookie Mountain." It's a pretty good record too, I like it.
But this has nothing to do with the music; looking at the CD cover, and the inside booklet, and the especially atrocious looking back-cover (not pictured here), I thought the record looked like something from 1992. Then I realized that is was released on 4AD, and looked again at the credits, and discovered that yes, indeed, the graphics were done by the once-great Vaughan Oliver.
Vaughan Oliver did some great work for 4AD back in the day, I even have a collection of his work, (This Rimy River: Vaughn Oliver and Graphic Works 1988-94.) But looking at the TVOTR cd I can't help but notice how stuck in time his work looks nowadays. Even David Carson has moved on and has let his graphic style evolve, but Oliver's work appears to be caught in some kind of time-warp-loop.