The History of Typography - Animated Short from Ben Barrett-Forrest on Vimeo.
This is an interesting educational short about the history of Typography.
I recently was designing a full page ad that was to be in a Hong Kong antique magazine and was having trouble finding the right font. I am not a graphic designer but when it involves photography I can wing it. I ended up going with a font called District Thin, which is a Helvetica based font and I sort of felt like it was an easy cop out since Helvetica is always used....everywhere. But I didn't have time to play around with it too long. My trouble with the font finding made me think of this animated short I found a year or so ago . It's very interesting and the animation keeps you involved.
The only real issue I have with the video is the doughy softness and rosy knuckles of the dude's hands. Not that I have Viking hands but guys with hands like that need to get out and do some hard labor and toughen them up. If not, every meeting will start with a disappointing hand shake. Just saying.
-Brian
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