Do you agree or disagree with any of the designers’ statements, why?
I agree with the statement made by Tim Brown. He said, “If one’s really honest with oneself, most of what we design ends up in a landfill somewhere.“ I think it is true because a lot of what is designed is not thought to be valuable or worth keeping when it loses its use or becomes old. When it comes to the average consumer, they buy a product and use it and when it is done it becomes trash. I think designers find more respect to these products verses just an ordinary consumer and that is why he was able to understand that someone views his things, along with others, as useless.
Has anything the designers said changed how you thought about design?
I think the statement made by Alice Rawsthorn really stands out to me because she made the comment that “designers spend most of their time designing products and services for the 10% of the world’s population that already owns too much when the 90% don’t even have basic products and services to lead a subsistent life.” I think this really sunk in with me because as a student who wants to get into filmmaking, I can’t make a movie that only 10% of people will want to see but making a movie that 90% of people will want to see.
Each designer interviewed for “Objectified” defined how they see Design, how would you define design and how has that definition changed?
Before seeing this film, I would have thought that design was something to do with things you see in museums that designers create or clothing you see in stores and on the runway. After seeing this film, I now know that design is anything that someone uses on a regular basis. Clothing, toothbrushes, chairs, beds, homes, furniture and much more.