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It's Tuesday August the 7 around 10:57PM and

Helvetica: The Movie Screening

So i checked out the special screening of the movie Helvetica tonight. I so wanted to title this post, Hell-vetica, but couldn't justify it. No, I'm not a type geek, kids. And yes, it is a movie about a typeface called Helvetica. Although, after the one designer lady kept talking crap about Helvetica because it was the font of all the companies that supported both the Vietnam and Iraq wars, I'm sold on this font. The more big souless companies that use it, the better. Helvetica it all I say! I think we should delete the rest. Except Courier in Final Draft. Here's a clip of the pretty amusing Erik Spiekermann.

Here are some brief highlights from the event:

1. Goaties. Lots of Goaties. You need them to be a proper designer.

2. Douglas Coupland, who was on the post film panel, interupted his introduction to talk about himself. This is just plain deserving of pretty amazing t-shirt with the word "smug" written in helvetica on it. At first I didn't like this move, but now, I kind of think I love it.

3. Mr. Coupland doesn't like Courier 12.

4. Since I know people that still use it, and i know I once did, let's give some props out to the magic that is comic sans.

5. The after party cheese was just chedder cubes. I'm pretty sure this means that chedder is the helvetica of cheeses, so this was rather fitting. There was also mustard. Not an important fact, but still, I liked that. Both went well with the $1 cheeseburger I got at McDonalds before going in. (Note: There is a new McDonalds on Granville and Smithe).

More on this later maybe. Who knows...Pretty sure after posting this, i too could use one of those smug helvetica shirts. I'm okay with that.