Helvetica as Metallica
2006
wooden etching on BFK Rives paper 250g
49 x 59 cm
edition of 20 numbered and signed copies
printed by David Liaudet, Esbam, Le Mans
The inversion of two radically opposed
visual identities. Helvetica is a font created in 1957 by the Swiss
graphic designer Max Miedinger (1910–1980) for the Haas Type
Foundry in Basel. Metallica is an American heavy metal group formed
in 1981 in Los Angeles.