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'Helvetica, 1957-2007' 2007
Hommage to Helvetica Letters, Exhibition at Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich, Switzerland
Exhibition Hommage 50 Years Helvetica Letters and Filmpremiere, 2007
International Invited Poster Competition, Winner Poster
Text by Allan Flecher: Helvetica is to typeface as Toblerone to Chocolate
Design by Melchior Imboden, Switzerland
Printed in Stans, Switzerland by Boesch Siebdruck AG
M. Imboden : "For this poster I worked with a text of the famous Designer Allan Flecher, H – Helvetica is to type face as T – Toblerone to chocolate.
I used the two Letters H and T and created with Helvetica Letters this Poster with a Positive and negative space for each letter."
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