Sat 03 Jan
2009
From several years ago but still worth a look: typographer Mark Simonson highlights director Wes Anderson’s preoccupation with the typeface Futura in his “third feature film,” a trend that also continued in Anderson’s subsequent inferior yet visually consistent releases.
He wasn’t the first director to be obsessed with futura - Stanley Kubrick was also madly in love with face because of its almost perfect geometric forms & used it in most of his films & posters.
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