Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface

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Summary: How can you review a book if you haven't even seen it.
Review: ... Great book... in a lovely format... shows how many different guises Helvetica can give. Love the hidden perforated sections too. A book you'll pick up time and time again ...

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Summary: Great book!
Review: I really like the book. It's a comprehensive showcase for one of the most controversial typeface. This tiny book holds numerous artwork (many of them are quintessential pieces) designed by both well-trained designers and amateurs, as well as debating quotes, throughout the decades. The collection of logos is also quite interesting.

Again, and as always, Helvetica didn't speak just for itself here. At least, it also spoke of Graphic Design as a discipline. Wonderful, brilliant and impressive; both the book and the typeface.

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Summary: Wonderful book, unforgivable, shoddy binding
Review: I'll start by saying that this is a lovely tribute to the most invisible, versatile and ubiquitous font. It is a full bled chunk of photography and unintentional wit.
Buuuttt....

The binding is absolutely horrendous. I'm not referring to the imaginative use of perforation, either. The binding completely fell apart after flipping through it once. The pages are not folded and stitched and only held in with apparently inadequate adhesive. I am now the proud owner of a nice stack of loose paper.

Due to the fact that the reader is expected to separate the perforated edges- the book becomes non-refundable.

So, although I wish I could recommend this little book due to content I strongly advise that you not purchase it.

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Summary: Helvetica: A Plague Upon Humankind
Review: In all fairness, this is a nicely produced book. Looks good and is well-researched. However, it's amazing to think there was a time when Helvetica was the hip new font. Before it ate the (typography) world.

I'm a professional desktop publisher. The point of this review is that Helvetica should be outlawed before the next 800 million people overuse it again. Someone's typographic aesthetic could get permanently damaged by the sheer mindless repetition of this font. Sure it changed the world-- so did smog, the plague, and junk food.

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Summary: Sounds cool
Review: Its seems silly to me to write a review about a book that's not out yet, like the review by the New York person. He dosen't even critique the book, he rants about the font, big difference! I haven't read it either, but Ill balance the star rating with my non-review review.