gordon ling

To mark its 50th birthday, Swiss dots will produce a film about Helvetica. Gary Hustwit will direct the movie featuring Massimo Vignelli, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, Matthew Carter, Erik Spiekermann, Stefen Sagmeister, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf, Kirsty Carter and Emma Thomas and others.

Helvetica is definately everywhere. Look into corporate, contempory magazines, signages, etc. When you enter the LRT, Helvetica directs you. Helvetica saperates the mens from the ladies.

I used to be a hardcore Helvetican back in my old college days. Not to escape the hassle to tell people that i work hard in making a design but Helvetica seems to be my kind of type back then. Take away the ‘noise’ from all other typefaces, you end up with Helvetica. Minimalizing readability character? Simplicity forcing the type to look ‘left-behind’ in the design? Maybe, its the easy way out for many designers or for those who have doubts with a certain copy in a design.

Technology has allow Helvetica to span even more. Along came Neue, Rounded… etc. in colors of Condensed, Bold, Medium, Light, Extended, etc.

I would be looking forward for this movie. Pardon me for the enthusiasm but I seriously am interested in this movie, eventough some designers might say “I had have enough of Helvetica. Please make a movie about the early days of Allan Quartermain. If you’de manage to find it in any DVD shops nationwide, I would be glad if you could purchase a copy for me.

For the past few weeks, I have been up to many things. From completing the corporate brochure design to going internationally maximum spamming blogs.

In the process, I lost 3kgs, slept an average of 5 hours a day (sometimes 10 hours if its a Sabbath/ non accurate information), travelled an average of 300 kilometres a week around town (small scale?) and drank coffee every day & night. Had a little weak knees & mal-nutrition thing going on in my body. Nothing to be horribly excited about really, its just that I thought I was crazy enough to be a cynically dedicated workologist critic. Whatever.

P/s: I found something 100x more fun to do than figure drawing; Max Singh would know what it is.

The pictures below happen to be better than sex at its point of time:

Before the pictures, Mrs Eaves that is. This one was pretty challenging. All that stiching & the complicated grid thingie, together with the folded pages thingie. Nevertheless, the feeling of completing a job truly satisfies. Again, another piece of rebellious work, skeptically against what my ‘advisor’ or ’supervisor’ spoke off.

The additional catalog:

Others:

The highest-standards of my figure drawing.

I had this idea of after this month to have this little closing act of smashing my guitars onstage. Care to join?