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Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized: The Complete Interviews
The complete interviews from all three films in the Design Trilogy, including 100 hours of never-before-released conversations, with a foreword and notes on each interview by Gary Hustwit. The book includes in-depth discussions with designers and thinkers like Paola Antonelli, Alejandro Aravena, Chris Bangle, Michael Bierut, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Neville Brody, Tim Brown, Amanda Burden, David Carson, Matthew Carter, Candy Chang, Yung Ho Chang, Noah Chasin, James Corner, Wim Crouwel, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Tobias Frere-Jones, Experimental Jetset, Dan Formosa, Sir Norman Foster, Naoto Fukasawa, Jan Gehl, Jonathan Hoefler, Jonathan Ive, Hella Jongerius, Bruce Katz, David Kelley, Rem Koolhaas, Rahul Mehrotra, Bill Moggridge, Marc Newson, Oscar Niemeyer, Enrique Peñalosa, Michael C. Place, Rick Poynor, Dieter Rams, Karim Rashid, Alice Rawsthorn, Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher, Ric Scofidio, Erik Spiekerman, Davin Stowell, Jane Fulton Suri, Massimo Vignelli, Rob Walker, Hermann Zapf, and many more... over 75 of the world's most creative and innovative people. "A buried trove of treasure: hundreds of hours of insight from some of the most luminous design minds of our era... an oral history of the contemporary world of design." - Fast Company
- GenresDesignNonfiction
736 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
About the author
Gary Hustwit
13 books6 followersGary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker based in New York and London. He worked with punk label SST Records in the late 1980s, and was subsequently involved in a wide range of projects in music and book publishing before he began producing documentaries in 2001. His films include the design documentaries Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanized.
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April 5, 2015
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A great interviewer finds a way to get to the unique and interesting things someone has to say. Hustwit is good at that, and I also think he's helped by the fact that his interviews are meant to be presented as a set during the movie, so there's a continuity of thought, a kind of comparison of opinions and ideas. And for that, it's even more interesting. Helvetica is maybe the strongest of the series, with Urbanized being the weakest, but perhaps that has more to do with subjects that have and have not been treaded. The typographers in particular were refreshing to hear from, and I also found myself snapping lots of photos from the industrial designers as reference for later. Highly recommended for any fan of design in its varied forms.
A great interviewer finds a way to get to the unique and interesting things someone has to say. Hustwit is good at that, and I also think he's helped by the fact that his interviews are meant to be presented as a set during the movie, so there's a continuity of thought, a kind of comparison of opinions and ideas. And for that, it's even more interesting. Helvetica is maybe the strongest of the series, with Urbanized being the weakest, but perhaps that has more to do with subjects that have and have not been treaded. The typographers in particular were refreshing to hear from, and I also found myself snapping lots of photos from the industrial designers as reference for later. Highly recommended for any fan of design in its varied forms.
September 19, 2015
Highlights + Notes:
Rem Koolhaas - Thoughts on the commercialization of architecture, recent Chinese architecture, how architecture competitions result in lots of wasted work, and how preservation varies across continents. I really like Rem Koolhaas' CCTV Building in China and he's pretty articulate about his theories.
Dieter Rams - The best part of this interview is about making products that are so simple and well designed that they can be enduring in their design. It doesn't break and it doesn't feel old and passé. Strangely enough, he also says if he were starting over he wouldn't be a designer because the world already has too man things.
Rem Koolhaas - Thoughts on the commercialization of architecture, recent Chinese architecture, how architecture competitions result in lots of wasted work, and how preservation varies across continents. I really like Rem Koolhaas' CCTV Building in China and he's pretty articulate about his theories.
Dieter Rams - The best part of this interview is about making products that are so simple and well designed that they can be enduring in their design. It doesn't break and it doesn't feel old and passé. Strangely enough, he also says if he were starting over he wouldn't be a designer because the world already has too man things.
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