By Gary Hustwit, the same man behind Helvetica: The Film, now comes Objectified, a documentary dedicated to our relationships with objects in everyday living, from the idea to the final product.

A must-see for any kind of designer at the very least.

The movie hasn’t been released yet. Any new information will of course be posted here.

Posted on January 5, 2009.
Categories: Accesories, Design, Documentaries, Industrial Design, Inspiration, Interviews, Society, Trends.
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I hadn’t realized I hadn’t posted anything about Helvetica: The Film, the movie about Helvetica, the typography.
 
I heard of it being made over a year ago, and since then I’ve been eagorly waiting to see it.
 
In the end the veredict is only one: It was worth the wait.
 
The documentary is excellent. Its editing is exceptional, the interviewed amazing, and the typography a modern classic.
 
From the testimonies of design geniuses such as Massimo Vignelli, Matthew Carter, David Carson, Paula Scher, Stefan Sagmeister and Eric Spiekermann among various others, Helvetica: The Film is a first class visual testimony that should without a doubt be seen by every graphic designer around the world. In fact I believe it should be being showcased in all design schools all over the globe. So if there happens to be any school directors passing by here, please try to show it. Your students will be grateful.
 
The best of all the documentary, in my opinion, is that it really manages to give Helvetica its well deserved protagonism, but at the same time gives an enormous amount of life advice, first to graphic designers, but really to any person who watches it.
 
This isn’t only a documentary about a typeface. It’s a graphic design guide written by the beautiful Helvetica.
 
And of course, not to leave you hanging. Here’s the full documentary.
 
Sadly the video has been taken down from the web. Still, if you get the chance to grab a DVD copy, do it!.

Posted on January 24, 2008.
Categories: Culture, Design, Designers, Documentaries, Inspiration, Interviews, Resources, Typography.
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Amazing words by sci-fi writing genius Harlan Ellison.
 
Via: ComputerLove’s Public Feed.

Posted on January 10, 2008.
Categories: Curious, Design, Documentaries, Individuals, Inspiration, Interviews, Quotes, Resources, Society, Unacceptable.
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Having rapped for well over 8 years, hip hop was and still is a pretty strong part of my life and I’ll probably never get over my taste for it, although regretably, hip hop is seen by many as only a world full of guns, luxury, women treated as sexual objects and an exponentially excesive macho-like attitude.
 
So in the rap game, if before it was gold, nowadays it’s all about diamonds. Those little carbon polygons practically move the world and it’s virtually impossible to find yourself a rapper without some bling-bling of their own.
 
However, we only seem to be seeing the prettier side of things. Polished chains, the rings, the grills, the pimp cups, etc. But… Where do the diamonds come from? What processes, what sacrifices are being made in other places so that we can all go blind from the jewels on the latest hot rapper on tv?.
 
That’s what Bling tries to tell us. A documentary narrating the journey of 5 world-claimed rappers to the place where most diamonds are being extracted: Sierra Leone.
 
Jadakiss, Tego Calderón, Paul Wall, Raekwon y Kanye West travel to the african country to realize that the price to be paid is even greater than the value of the diamonds.
 
A raw, real documentary that shows just how ironic things can be in the world some times.
 
Link:Bling.

Posted on December 9, 2007.
Categories: Accesories, Culture, Documentaries, Events, Human Rights, Inspiration, Music, Society.
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My man Majo informed today about this great project by Adidas and their customizable sneakers series Adicolor.
 
The main idea of the project is to comission different young directors from around the world to tell from their point of view a story about a given color.
 
Starting in March, 2007 White was released, followed by Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Pink to close with Black.
 
What’s cool about this, besides every short being awesome, is that every color has it’s own URL which is the RGB code of the given color.
 
A really cool project. Very clean and appealing.
 
Links: Adidas.
White
Red
Blue
Yellow
Green
Pink
Black.

Posted on August 22, 2007.
Categories: Curious, Design, Documentaries, Inspiration, Interventionism.
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Excelente documental sobre todo lo que pasa más allá de nuestros ojos.
 
Sonidos de colores, cámaras infrarrojas, cámaras lentas, etc.
 
Un verdadero placer visual.
 
Está en inglés.
 
Link: National Geographic – The Invisible World.
 
 

 
 
Excelent documentary about everything that happens beyond our eyes.
 
Colored sounds, infrared cameras, slow motion, etc.
 
A real visual delight.
 
Link: National Geographic – The Invisible World.

Posted on August 17, 2007.
Categories: Culture, Curious, Documentaries, Nature, Science, Television.
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Esto quizás se aleje un poco de los posts “tradicionales” de mi blog; pero creo que vale la pena.
 
Hoy, viendo en google video un documental sobre las lunas de Saturno; me acordé de un programa que hace unos 3 años había visto junto a mi hermano en uno de esos clásicos trasnoches de vacaciones frente al televisor. El documental se llamaba Conspiracy Theory: Did we land on the Moon?, y trataba, como el título lo indica, sobre la falsedad de las expediciones lunares Apollo hechas por el gobierno de los Estados Unidos.
 
Tras buscar el video en San Google, volví a verlo y, de pasada, a reafirmar mi escepticismo hacia los alunizajes de la década del ‘70.
 
El documental es realmente desconcertante. Con evidencias casi indiscutibles sobre el tema, teorías sobre asesinatos y pérdidas misteriosas de información, pareciera que todo indica que, tal y como mencionan en el documental, el aterrizaje en la Luna fue nada más que la película más cara de todos los tiempos.
 
Obviamente no tengo autoridad alguna para afirmar o no que existió el aterrizaje en la Luna; pero simplemente cuando vi este documental concreto, imparcial y serio, realmente pasé a poner en duda casi en un 100% la veracidad de los 6 aterrizajes lunares que se han hecho.
 
Pero bueno, lo mejor al final, es simplemente que cada uno genere su propia opinión. Creo que este es uno de los pocos posts en mi blog que realmente pueden dar espacio a un buen debate, así que si quieren dejar su comentario respecto al tema, estaría excelente.
 
El video, para variar (y ahora sí que es lamentable), está en inglés; así que por ahí si alguien lo tiene o sabe de dónde sacarlo con subtítulos en español, que postee aquí el link. A los que entienden inglés, por favor véanlo. Van a quedar boquiabiertos.

Posted on July 26, 2007.
Categories: Curious, Documentaries, Science, Technology.
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Hace tiempo que quiero ver estos documentales de la BBC sobre el Planeta Tierra. Vi los comerciales por Discovery Channel y se veían increíbles.
 
Ahora por suerte, podemos verlos todos.
 
Lamentablemente están en inglés; pero traen subtítulos en inglés que quizás hacen más fácil entenderlos. Pero como sea vean aunque sea algunas partes. La cinematografía por sí sola ya es increíble.
 
Los episodios:
 
Desiertos.
Junglas.
Cuevas.
Mundos de hielo.
Grandes planicies.
De Polo a Polo.
Mares profundos.
 
Son largos y la calidad en GoogleVideo no es muy buena, pero creo que aún así vale la pena esperar a que carguen.

Posted on June 11, 2007.
Categories: Culture, Documentaries, Inspiration, Nature, Television.
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