Are you a creative person? Do you believe that through creativity and design, you can positively impact culture, the world, peoples lives? Not sure? Here are three documentaries available on DVD that cover a broad range of creative topics from advertising and how it influences us to typography and how it affects our lives to the creative process in designing products that we use everyday:
1. Art & Copy – Released in 2009, this documentary gives you glimpse into the advertising world and some of the most influential creative people in advertising that have impacted consumers during the past 50 years.
2. Helvetica – Released in 2007, this documentary explores the way typefaces, “fonts” affect our lives – especially one font – Helvetica.
3. Objectified. – Released in 2009, this documentary explores the product design process and the creative people behind products that we use everyday from toothbrushes to furniture to tech gadgets.
Intrigued? Looking to be inspired? If so, I would highly recommend that you check out these three documentaries and explore the power of creativity and design for yourself. All are available on amazon.com. Enjoy!
Thanks for the book recommendations. I think that the impact creatives have on our society is greatly underestimated, more now than ever.
The broad availability of design tools with non-designers using them for corporate communications has contributed to design becoming a function, rather than an art for many.