Objectified Response

   The documentary Objectified touched on many interesting and insightful points about design and the different approaches taken to complete a finished object. This film showed many different designers from different cultures and design backgrounds, but all of these designers shared several common goals. These goals included innovation, simplicity, beauty, and function.
   The film largely focused on the relationship between people and the objects they interact with everyday. Due to the fact that I am an illustration major and not a industrial design student, I was more focused on the processes of the designers rather than the objects and their relationships with people.
   At first some of the information presented seemed irrelevant, especially when the designers were elaborating on their backgrounds and personal details, but then I realized the important point that the film makers were trying to get across. They were trying to illustrate the many different approaches there are to design. Although many of these approaches share similar structures everyone has their own way of thinking and their own way of creating their final product. The trick is finding your process and methods and then fine tuning them to fit your needs and the needs of the project. I see that that is what I am going to have to do in order to be a successful design student and a successful illustrator.