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Helvetica

February 17

Movie about Helvetica font (typeface). I could not imagine, that documentary movie about font and its influence can be so interesting. It leaves influence and forces to think about fonts that are surrounding your all the time.

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Helvetica is the name of widely used typeface (font), that was created at 1957. A lot of major companies and products have used Helvetica for their brand faces.

Movie is about Helvetica invention, what was before it and what changes brought the actual invention of one particular typefaces.
There are a lot of visual examples shown to express power of Helvetica typeface. As well negative characteristics issued with overuse it.

Find 80 minutes and watch the movie !

Curtains I would like to have.

February 13

Idea of these curtains is great, just look at them,

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It could be great contrast between my rural view from the window and curtain that sometimes would force to remember about big city lights. There is a question, how they will protect your home from unauthorized eyes.

The interesting thing is that lights are no just white painting on black material, these are small holes that imitate lights.

However, (from original link, where curtains were discovered) it looks like these curtains are not available for mass production unfortunately.