Typography Videos
Here are some typography-related videos.
Font Humour
Trajan—the Movie Font
iLT’s Homage to FontBook
This video is a beautiful brief introduction to typography. Typography is what language looks like - Ellen Lupton. A good typographer is someone who communicates a point of view with skill and imagination and makes the type taste good—Jeffrey Keedy
Veteran graphic design, typography and letterpress teacher from the London College of Printing, David Dabner talks about typography, giving an insight into the principles of design, creative letterpress and why computers—in his opinion—make students sloppy.
An interesting use of type. The typewriter font mimics those used in old police reports. Individual letter forms are animated to illustrate characteristics of, in this instance, a serial killer.
Helvetica The Documentary (clip) Wim Crouwel:
One minute and 53 seconds with Wim Crouwel. “Neutralism was a word that we loved”.
Helvetica The Documentary (clip Erik Spiekermann).
“I just like looking at type…they are my friends.”




















ryan
I loved the Helvetica documentary, it is well worth a watch!
May 25, 2008
Robert
I agree ryan, I’ve watched it about 100 times :-)
Jul 14, 2008
Sabina Cao
These are some really interesting videos, thanks, especially the Helvetica documentary! Have you seen the video where all the other fonts dis on comic sans? It can’t remember the name but it’s quite funny.
Jun 14, 2012