Design your way

Friday, August 1, 2014

Wasting your free time shouldn’t be an option for you as a designer, especially when you have deadlines that are coming at you at lightning speed. Instead, when you have a lunch break or even after you’ve finished work for the day, you should invest in your knowledge about the domain you are working in.


Designers are able to learn much and find great inspiration by viewing these very inspiring design documentaries. Some of the great designers of the past have a way of boosting the imagination and creating more ideas that take your talents to a new level.


We’ve gathered here a great collection of design documentaries that are thought to create a solid foundation and inspire artists and designers. Indeed, the films collected here cover a vast amount of creativity, but they are certainly guaranteed to kick start your imagination.


Helvetica


Helvetica


Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.


DESIGN IS ONE


DESIGN IS ONE


Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra’s Design is One so wonderfully captures the honesty and authenticity that drives Lella and Massimo Vignelli’s holistic approach to their work and relationship. It is difficult to stay true to your design philosophies and methodologies, especially as the world becomes more complicated.


Art & Copy


Art & Copy


ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. It reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time, people who’ve profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry.


Design & Thinking


Design & Thinking


It is one of the very few documentaries on design, and certainly the first about the impact design thinking has on the world. It was received as a tool to solve every problem, from daily life decisions to business challenges to world hunger problems.


The Universal Arts of Graphic Design


The Universal Arts of Graphic Design


Though often overlooked, Graphic Design surrounds us: it is the signs we read, the products we buy, and the rooms we inhabit. Graphic designers find beauty within limitations, working towards the ultimate goal of visually communicating a message, be it the packaging of a product, the spirit of a book, or the narrative of a building. Utilizing a language of type and imagery, graphic designers try to make every aspect of our lives defined and beautiful.


Indie Game: The Movie


Indie Game: The Movie


Indie Game: The Movie is a feature documentary about video games, their creators and the craft. The film follows the dramatic journeys of video game developers as they create and release their games to the world.


Beauty Is Embarrassing


Beauty Is Embarrassing


Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee’s Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work designing some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture.


Linotype: The Film


Linotype: The Film


A feature-length documentary centered around the Linotype typecasting machine. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, it revolutionized printing and society. The film tells the surprisingly emotional story of the people connected to the Linotype and how it impacted the world.


PressPausePlay


PressPausePlay


The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture?


Typeface


Typeface


Typeface is an independent documentary film about visual culture, technology and graphic design, centered around the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.


How Art Made The World


How Art Made The World


How Art Made The World is a 2005 five-part BBC One documentary series, with each episode looking at the influence of art on the current day situation of our society.








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