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Helvetica on PBS!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Fri Jan 9 22:45:52 2009

Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:45:39 -0500
From: tower@alum.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
To: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: tower@alum.mit.edu

hi budding typographers,

as many of you will remember,
from lori t's email about the show at moma in nyc (ended last March)

the type face, 

   helvetica

is celebrating it's 50th anniversary

the PBS tv series,
"Independent Lens"
has filmed an episode on helvetica and it's history

see 
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/helvetica/
for info on the typeface, the program, and when it's being shown
on your local pbs affiliate

yiLFS -len

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