''Objectified'' is a feature-length documentary film examining the role of every day non-living

objects Object may refer to: General meanings * Object (philosophy), a thing, being, or concept ** Object (abstract), an object which does not exist at any particular time or place ** Physical object, an identifiable collection of matter * Goal, an ai ...

and the people who design them, in our daily lives. The film is directed by

Gary Hustwit Gary Hustwit is an American independent filmmaker and photographer. He is best known for his design documentaries, which examine the impact of trends in graphic design, typography, industrial design, architecture, and urban planning. He told '' ...

. ''Objectified'' premièred at the

South By Southwest South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It began in 1987 and has conti ...

Festival on March 14, 2009. According to Swiss Dots Production, the film is the second part of the three-film series

Design Trilogy The Design Trilogy is the collective name of a series of three documentary films about design directed by film director Gary Hustwit. The films are: *2007: ''Helvetica (film), Helvetica'', on the famous typeface of Helvetica, the same name *2009: ...

, the first being ''Helvetica'' about the famous typeface, and the third and final film being the documentary '' Urbanized''.

Appearing characters

Paola Antonelli Paola Antonelli (born 1963) is an Italian architect, curator, author, editor, and educator. Antonelli is the Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, where she also serves as the founding Director o ...

- Design Curator, Museum of Modern Art (New York) * Chris Bangle - Former Design Director, BMW Group (Munich) *

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (born 1971 and 1976) are brothers noted for their design work, which has been featured in publications and museums globally — and spans a wide range from tables and chairs to tableware, rugs, textile walls, office furnit ...

- Designers (Paris) *

Andrew Blauvelt Andrew Blauvelt (born West Point, NY in 1964) is a Japanese-American curator, designer, educator, and writer. Since 2015 he has served as director of the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Biography Blauvelt received an MFA in d ...

- Design Curator, Walker Art Center * Tim Brown - CEO, IDEO * Anthony Dunne - Designer (London) * Agnete Enga - Senior Industrial Designer, Smart Design * Dan Formosa - Design & Research, Smart Design (New York) *

Naoto Fukasawa Naoto Fukasawa (; born 1956) is a Japanese designer, author, and educator, working in the fields of Product design, product and furniture design. He is known for his product design work with the Japanese retail company Muji, as well as collaborat ...

- Designer (Tokyo) *

Jonathan Ive Sir Jonathan Paul Ive (born 27 February 1967) is a British-American designer. He is best known for his work at Apple Inc., where he was senior vice president of industrial design and chief design officer. Ive is the founder of LoveFrom, a crea ...

- Former Chief Design Officer, Apple (Cupertino) * Hella Jongerius - Designer (Rotterdam) * David M. Kelley - Founder & Chairman, IDEO *

Bill Moggridge William Grant Moggridge, Royal Designer for Industry, RDI (25 June 1943 – 8 September 2012) was an English designer, author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO and was director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum i ...

- Co-founder, IDEO *

Marc Newson Marc Andrew Newson (born 20 October 1963) is an Australian industrial designer, creative director, and artist who has worked in many industry sectors including furniture, product, and transportation design, luxury goods, fashion, and fine art ...

- Designer (London/Paris) * Fiona Raby - Designer (London) *

Dieter Rams Dieter Rams (born 20 May 1932) is a German industrial designer who is most closely associated with the consumer products company Braun (company), Braun, the furniture company Vitsœ, and the functionalism (architecture), functionalist school of ...

- Former Design Director, Braun (Kronberg, Germany) * Karim Rashid - Designer (New York) *

Alice Rawsthorn Alice Rawsthorn OBE (born 1958 in Manchester) is a British design critic and author. Her books include ''Design as an Attitude'' (2018) and ''Hello World: Where Design Meets Life'' (2013). She is chair of the board of trustees at the Chisenhale ...

- Design Editor, International Herald Tribune * Amber Shonts - Model * Davin Stowell - CEO & Founder, Smart Design * Jane Fulton Suri - IDEO * Rob Walker - ''

New York Times Magazine ''The New York Times Magazine'' is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times''. It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors. The magazin ...

References

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