The Puget News » designer http://thepugetnews.com Covering creativity in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Thu, 03 May 2012 16:27:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 “Objectified,” a documentary trailer http://thepugetnews.com/2009/01/24/objectified-a-documentary-trailer/ http://thepugetnews.com/2009/01/24/objectified-a-documentary-trailer/#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:35:12 +0000 Eric Franklin http://thepugetnews.com/?p=718

A new design documentary from Gary Hustwit is coming to SxSW this year in March. Hustwit also directed the acclaimed “Helvetica,” which recently made its way to NBC and seems to reside just below my shipping DVDs on Netflix all the time.

This trailer features the dulcet tones of Jony Ive (amongst others) to start off. Now how’s that for design?

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John Gall is the vice-president and art director for Vintage and Anchor Books. He’s the designer of “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” a personal favorite of mine. While the video’s a touch light on substance, you do get to see a bunch of nifty covers while learning the 5 rules , which are:

  1. read the book
  2. inspiration is everywhere
  3. be thrifty with fonts
  4. practice sound time management
  5. rules are meant to be broken

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