http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/22/helveticafilm/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 26 May 2011 13:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19861 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/22/helveticafilm/comment-page-1/#comment-1595 ‘Objectified’ification ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Tue, 05 May 2009 15:50:02 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/22/helveticafilm/#comment-1595 [...] My esteemed colleague and I sardined ourselves into the back row of the first balcony of a jam-packed Bloor Cinema last night to watch the second screening of Objectified (“Helvetica 2.0”). I didn’t show up with a guerrilla action plan like last time. [...] [...] My esteemed colleague and I sardined ourselves into the back row of the first balcony of a jam-packed Bloor Cinema last night to watch the second screening of Objectified (“Helvetica 2.0”). I didn’t show up with a guerrilla action plan like last time. [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/22/helveticafilm/comment-page-1/#comment-1541 The Michael Bierut Show ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:20:41 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/22/helveticafilm/#comment-1541 [...] Pentagram designer/contributor to doomed blog/author/Helvetica scene-stealer Michael Bierut obsesses constantly over writing articles and postings when, all the while, what he [...] [...] Pentagram designer/contributor to doomed blog/author/Helvetica scene-stealer Michael Bierut obsesses constantly over writing articles and postings when, all the while, what he [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/22/helveticafilm/comment-page-1/#comment-1423 Michael Bierut isn’t a writer ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:50:46 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/22/helveticafilm/#comment-1423 [...] Didn’t he steal the show in Helvetica? [...] [...] Didn’t he steal the show in Helvetica? [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/22/helveticafilm/comment-page-1/#comment-1029 ‘Helvetica’ accessibility manifesto ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:05:32 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/22/helveticafilm/#comment-1029 [...] am making a public appeal to the producers of Helvetica, the acclaimed documentary of which I wrote the best review, to live up to the standards of the film itself and not blow it when it comes to captioning and [...] [...] am making a public appeal to the producers of Helvetica, the acclaimed documentary of which I wrote the best review, to live up to the standards of the film itself and not blow it when it comes to captioning and [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/22/helveticafilm/comment-page-1/#comment-937 Antipoynorism ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Mon, 14 May 2007 18:26:13 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/22/helveticafilm/#comment-937 [...] Rick Poynor is a design critic of approximately my generation, with an output rivalled only by Steven Heller. Even though he’s made sense exactly twice in his career (in Helvetica and in a review of different covers of Ballard’s Crash), he’s a big fish in the small pond of graphic-design criticism. The other critics – all five of them – really care what he thinks. But when they are gone, so will memories of Poynor be, because not only is he on the wrong side of history, he has opted out of the defining medium of the 21st century. And, like an aging chanteuse with too many farewell tours, he can’t keep from repeating himself: First he quits the Design Observer blog, dismissing the entire enterprise, then he used a column in Print magazine to do the latter all over again. [...] [...] Rick Poynor is a design critic of approximately my generation, with an output rivalled only by Steven Heller. Even though he’s made sense exactly twice in his career (in Helvetica and in a review of different covers of Ballard’s Crash), he’s a big fish in the small pond of graphic-design criticism. The other critics – all five of them – really care what he thinks. But when they are gone, so will memories of Poynor be, because not only is he on the wrong side of history, he has opted out of the defining medium of the 21st century. And, like an aging chanteuse with too many farewell tours, he can’t keep from repeating himself: First he quits the Design Observer blog, dismissing the entire enterprise, then he used a column in Print magazine to do the latter all over again. [...]

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