Product Details

• Actors: Paola Antonelli, Chris Bangle, Andrew Blauvelt, Anthony Dunne, Dan Formosa
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Plexifilm
• DVD Release Date: October 13, 2009
• Run Time: 75 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002KLALEC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,739 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's great material, but a second part is needed., February 19, 2010

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Patricio C. Ortiz "Patricio Ortiz" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Objectified (DVD)

I saw this documental three times. I also played it in my user centered design class. It's great material for educative purposes, but for first or second semester design students, and particularly the design process at Smart Design and IDEO. I do personally empatize with the way design is done at those two firms. Dieter Rams interview is great. Although it shows the state of affairs and different points of view, it's scope is too narrow, mostly focusing in well known designers, curators, critics and studios from the US, Europe and only one from Asia (N. Fukasawa) Design book publishers (Phaidon) started to realize that there is a lot of good design activity beyond the U.S. , Europe and Japan. I't would be great to see a second part showing the work of Filipino, Brazilian, Kenian or Mexican designers or small design consultancies in emerging countries who have to apply a lot of creativity, obtaining great designs in cultures with less corporation oriented design philosopies, and more technology limited environments. I do agree partially with "JW's" review, Most of this people are involved with a small fraction of the produced goods in the world but it does generally sample the way many design professionals do their work.
Overall its a good introductory film, but I hope more deep filmed material on I.D. will show up in the future.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as Helvetica but good, March 12, 2010

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J. Coates (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Objectified (DVD)

I enjoyed this movie but, it did not feel as tight as Helvetica. I think a slightly different direction in filmmaking and editing was needed. It felt slow and ponderous at times. Maybe it was the subject - limited to commercial product design? Just not enough juicy material to bite into. Maybe industrial design is too young, too commercial, too much built to meet the buyer's needs - despite any radical concepts or methodologies that emerge?
I would like to have seen more 20th C. history. Joe Columbo, AEG: Peter Behrens (the worlds first industrial designer and first to create and use all types of design at a corporation in a consistent manner), Buckminster Fuller (maybe), 1920s American design, Raymond Lowey, etc.. Even as a short 15 minute segment or interspersed throughout, it would be nice to see the history that lead to the "object".

24 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Designers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world! (Or so they would have us think), September 5, 2010

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George W - See all my reviews

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I was quite interested in the topic of the movie, especially since it promised to explore our interactions with objects in the world. Even the title suggested that it might consider not just the ways that humans transform their environments through design, but the ways that those objects transform our sense of what it is to be human, in the process (perhaps) objectifying us. Instead what this movie offers is a wholly uncritical celebration of design and designers, which culminates in the claim by one designer that they deserve the status formerly accorded philosophers (and, presumably, megalomaniac architects like Corbusier).

I don't really blame the designers for their bombast, but I do blame the filmmakers for their inability or unwillingness to probe beneath these claims and to ask hard questions about the relationship between design, capitalism, and the lives of ordinary folks. There are a couple of gestures toward the environmental impact of all our goodies, but these don't go anywhere. For that matter, neither does the movie. If you watch the first 10 minutes and nothing else you will already have taken in the basic point of the movie, which is to tell you how cool design is, how cool designers are, and how much we should be grateful to them for the sleek functionality of our MacBook Pros (though I would have thought $1700 would be gratitude enough).