DHUB’s premises on carrer de Montcada are seeing out the year with an exhibition dedicated to the Helvetica typeface, possibly the best known typeface in the world.

The exhibition, “Helvetica. A New Typeface?”, organised and produced by DHUB in collaboration with the Fundació Comunicació Gràfica (FGC), spotlights the typeface created by the Swiss typographer, Max Miedinger, in 1957.

The exhibition includes a timeline of Helvetica’s consolidation over the last fifty years with a view to understanding its role in the history of design, as well as its antecedents and its subsequent influence.

The itinerary, however, starts out with a selection of local works, highlighting the top-quality design of current and past creations whose common denominator is their use of Helvetica.

On display are exhibits by both young designers and consolidated studios, notably David Ruiz, Pablo Martín and the studio Lo Siento, among others. Also featured are works by local designers who pioneered successful use of the typeface, including Ricard Giralt Miracle, Josep Pla-Narbona and Enric Satué.

The exhibition, on view at DHUB Montcada from 2 December to 7 February, pays modest homage to this typeface whose evolution accounts for much of 20th-century design.

Until 7 March 2010
Venue: DHUB Montcada (Montcada, 12)
Open: Tuesday to Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and public holidays, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.