HelveticaNOW Poster Competition

Britta Boland, Crispin Jones and Stefano Mirti

Working together as a pan-European collective (Germany / England / Italy) we designed this poster for the HelveticaNow poster competition which is organised to celebrate the 50th Birthday of this most neutral and unexpressive of fonts. We were interested in trying to bring some life and animism to the type, so we rendered this quote by Jean Cocteau by hand (an utterly alien format for such a machine orientated typeface).

 
I also made a small test in the form of a congratulations card for my friend Adam (we were trying to think of utterly inappropriate uses for the font at the time), again the text was all hand drawn and inked in Helvetica.

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