{"id":190,"date":"2015-05-14T01:05:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T01:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digm.drexel.edu\/uxid\/?p=190"},"modified":"2017-07-26T01:06:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T01:06:33","slug":"helvetica-a-documentary-by-gary-hustwit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/2015\/05\/14\/helvetica-a-documentary-by-gary-hustwit\/","title":{"rendered":"Helvetica: A documentary by Gary Hustwit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker and photographer based in New York and London. He has produced eight feature documentaries, including the award-winning I Am Trying To Break Your Heart about the band Wilco; Moog, the documentary about electronic music pioneer Robert Moog; and an experimental feature film with the band Animal Collective. Gary worked with punk label SST Records in the late-1980s, ran the independent book publishing house Incommunicado Press during the 1990s, was Vice President of the media website Salon.com in 2000, and started the indie DVD label Plexifilm in 2001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}