Helvetica: 1983
A poster for the 50 Exhibition in the Design Museum in London. 50 designers and design companies were assigned a year at random and asked to create a poster that would be reproduced at 50 × 50 cm in an edition of 50. We were given the year 1983.
In 1983, D. Stempel AG redesigned Helvetica for the digital age, creating Neue Helvetica for Linotype. An uppercase letter ‘N’ from each weight is overlaid in a reference to the interpolation technique used to make the different weights. Reversing out of the letters is an image of the Lyra star system. Vega – the brightest star in the system – is 24 light years from Earth. So, when we look at Vega from 2007, we see it in 1983.
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