Comments on: Objectified

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:25:00 +0000

Good documentary. I don’t think that design is the cause of all troubles. It’s the capitalist-consumerist society with its idea of mass production and constant consumption that is the culprit. Things must be made to last for a very long time and in the end of the life cycle they have to be easily transformed, re used, re cycled, etc… They talk about that in the film a bit.

By: Jeremy Calhoun

Jeremy Calhoun — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:39:00 +0000

David, you are who you are because of the things around you not regardless of them. You think you would be the same person you are now if you didn’t have your first bike, or your favourite sweater or favourite super car growing up? No. We attach ourselves to objects as we move through life and each have their moment closest to us. Designers take the brunt of the marketing mask because they get their names put on things, not the marketing company. When was the last time you heard of a James Group product or an Ogilvy and Mather idea. They pimp out designers to be the fall guys for any and all things that the public sees. Get yer head out of yer arse and realize everyone is getting played. There is a lot more to human nature than you care to admit. Perhaps you could research why you surround yourself with the ‘things’ you keep in your life. Would you be the same without them? How would you live? What would you do to make that life better?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:01:00 +0000

You are not kidding. One of my close friends works in marketing/advertising and she seems to fall for the gimmicky ads more than most people.

By: Andrew Riethmuller

Andrew Riethmuller — Sun, 22 May 2011 08:17:00 +0000

So you have never bought something out of pure desire? Never bought something just because it made you feel good? I am an industrial designer and in a way can understand what you mean in a way but you obviously dont live in the rel world. Design can be art just like any other form (sculpture, music etc.) and we all know that good looking things (and people) are desirable

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:05:00 +0000

Sure if we hugged trees all day long and didn’t have to sit down to eat or drive a car to work. Lets not blame poverty on the chairs and silly french guys who think about cushioning their asses all day long, it is a little larger in scope than that and if you change the main point of this movie to Environmentalism then are we going to change all movies. There are movies about environmentalism and some about fictional battles in a far away galaxy but lets not condemn this documentary because it didn’t live up to your unreal expectations. I expected it to be a design film from the beginning and I was not let down, GREAT FILM.

By: David

David — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:32:13 +0000

Designers are, it would seem, the sad type of stupid that believes it’s own bullshit. Consumer culture, and the marketing that spawned it, has convinced most that things represent who we are. This is not true. It’s the lie to make you buy. It the lie that designers spew to get paid. You are who you are regardless of the objects around you. Buy nothing you don’t need.

By: myrna sunico

myrna sunico — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:24:56 +0000

must see for all product designers and manufacturers

By: myrna sunico

myrna sunico — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:24:08 +0000

very inspiring for industrial design students and designers

By: deox

deox — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:44:30 +0000

A MUST-SEE for every product design student.

By: Zutko

Zutko — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:06:11 +0000

This documentary was awful, and dealt so little with the pile of crap all consumerist cultures have dumped upon the world that it made me quite angry throughout. There is mention of it at the end, but I couldn’t care less what these millionaire designers have to say about their goddamn chairs–poverty is crushing human kind and environmental degradation is ruining the Earth’s ecosystem. Isn’t this what the WHOLE film should have been about?

By: pokerslut

pokerslut — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:21:29 +0000

Very cool documentary. It is certainly something designers of any kind should watch. Very philosophical and enlightening.

By: Praveen

Praveen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:56:00 +0000

This is the best documentary on Design i have ever watched.

Highly inspiring, comprehensive and enlightening.

A must watch for every designer

Thanks

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:50:04 +0000

That’s sad, ron. But there really isn’t any better player than Google YouTube’s. Maybe you should upgrade your bandwidth if it’s very low or soemething.

Thank you for adding this video, Vlatko, hopefully YouTube will leave it alone.

By: ron

ron — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:02:45 +0000

Had a hard time with loading and watching this video. I found it very interesting. I have been wathcing the video’s all summer. The google vido player is the best. Everything else is very slow and not useable. YouKu is of no use unless the bandwidth is huge. This YouTube video on design continues to stop and they are slow loading as well. I download and then watch later at times and google is the only one that allows this to work seamlessly. All the documentaries should be based on the google player. I understand you don’t have control over that but just my suggestion.