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Add to Folder | Comments (0) | January 05, 2009

Following the success of Helvetica, here's a trailer for director Gary Hustwit's new documentary film Objectified. The film about industrial design is currently in production and is set to release some time in 2009.

"It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them..."

As expected, the line-up of designers included in the documentary is incredible (Jonathan Ive, Paola Antonelli, Hella Jongerius...).

(note: the poster seen above is a limited-edition screenprint designed by Build)

Link: Objectified Film

New Year's Baby Covers for the Saturday Evening Post

Add to Folder | Comments (0) | December 31, 2008

J.C. Leyendecker's New Year's Baby from the covers of The Saturday Evening Post
via Daily Heller by Steven Heller

Link: more on The Daily Heller

A Short Visual History of Video Games

Add to Folder | Comments (0) | December 27, 2008

A Short Visual History of Videogames was created by Kyle Downes as a school project.

Link: more about the project on ViaComIT

Trailer for Shane Acker and Tim Burton's animated film 9

Add to Folder | Comments (0) | December 24, 2008

Shane Acker's Academy Award nominated animated short, 9, is being adapted into a feature length film with the help of producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (among many other talents). The darkly animated tale about rag dolls surviving in a post-apocalyptic nightmare is due out in U.S. theaters appropriately on 9.9.09.

Elijah Wood will lend his voice to the character 9. Other voice actors will include Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Christopher Plummer, and Martin Landau.

Link: watch the HD trailer for 9 on Apple.com

Turkel's Recycled Green Holiday Cards

Add to Folder | Comments (1) | December 22, 2008

The Miami advertising agency Turkel set out this year to make their holiday season more environmentally friendly. After brainstorming alternatives to sending out conventional holiday greeting cards, they decided to rely on vintage greeting cards (from any holiday) of the past.

Through collecting used cards from numerous outlets, including friends, ebay, and Craigslist, the Turkel staff accumulated around 3,000 cards. Each old card which made their final cut received a sticker which said,

"Ideas Should Never be Reused. But Cards? Definitely."

For a better understanding of their process, they created a video.

I wish I was on Turkel's mailing list to receive one of these fun, recycled cards. But, Turkel has set up a mini-site where you can email a vintage greeting to a friend from a presorted selection.