Music Video of the Week: TV On The Radio

This is the video for Province by TV On The Radio. TVOTR just released the fantastic Dear Science towards the end of the year, but this is video is taken from their previous album, Return to Cookie Mountain. Anyway, great song, great band, great video - listen for the unmistakable voice of David Bowie.

BTW, this is not the complete video, but you can see it here.

Objectified - From the Makers of Helvetica

From the makers of the amazing documentary Helvetica comes Objectified. If this film is nearly as good as Helvetica, then it is a must see even for non design nerds. From their website:

Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

Read director Gary Hustwit’s post about the film.

Objectified is currently in production and will have its world premiere in early 2009. Join our mailing list or subscribe to our RSS feed to stay informed of screening announcements.

Featuring
Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris)
Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Anthony Dunne (London)
Naoto Fukasawa (Tokyo)
IDEO (Palo Alto)
Jonathan Ive (Apple, California)
Hella Jongerius (Rotterdam)
Marc Newson (London/Paris)
Fiona Raby (London)
Dieter Rams (Kronberg, Germany)
Karim Rashid (New York)
Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune)
Smart Design (New York)
Rob Walker (New York Times Magazine)
and more participants TBA

Sugarcube Press Is Sweet

Cool little demo of the letterpress at work at Sugarcube Press. Good stuff!

Now This Is Some Good Stuff

I became aware of Mikey Burton over at Wellington Payne's excellent Design+Life blog, which is superb. Anyway, there is some gorgeous work from Mikey Burton here. Check it out.