Typography Movies

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typefa...

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but also an enthusiastic inventor, a daring businessman...

A short, educational animation about the history of fonts and typography. In a paper cutout stop-motion style, it begins with Gutenberg's creation of...

Hanzi is a documentary exploring international design, visual culture, and identity through the lens of modern Chinese typography. The film covers a v...

Why has letterpress printing survived? Irreplaceable knowledge of the historic craft is in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. Fascinating per...

Documentary on the French graphic and visual artist and designer, editor, artistic director, and teacher who is known for his widely-used fonts.

Alberto Casiraghy and Josef Weiss are true bibliophile artists. One in Osnago, the other in Mendrisio, they have been dedicating themselves for years...

Dedicated Dutch graphic designer Piet Schreuders visits Los Angeles to investigate all kinds of typeface as used in title-credits for movies and TV-se...

Words that end in -ake and start with ch-. A typographic animation.

A documentary film about Adriano Olivetti.

A fascinating documentary about Piet Zwart (1885–1977),an idiosyncratic and stubborn designer, who lived for innovation and prepared the way for the...

Words that start with the letter O, P, and R. A typographic animation.