Objectified Response

Response to Objectified:

I enjoyed watching this movie during lecture on Monday night.  It was a while ago, but the thing I remember the most and that related most to my major was when it talked about things being recyclable.  On the screen, they were showing all the old computer, television, and other casings that had to be scrapped and thrown away because they were not recyclable.  I thought about this a lot, and it true; really everything has to be recyclable or it isn’t a very good product anymore.  Even some big companies have gone from using styrofoam to paper products so they can be recycled.  This shows a change is design because designers have to change the way they thought about the material of the product in order to fit the society standard of recycling.  So I would just have to try to use earth friendly printers and such. 

Another interesting point I thought that the video made was that designers have to design for the extreme cases, like with the example of the potato peeler, how they have to design for someone with arthritis and everyone else in between can just have it fall into place.  I don’t know how that would specifically go with graphic design or illustration, but its interesting to think about... I guess the only real was that it would go with my majors would be making the typeface large enough so a variety of people could read it despite their sight.  And another way is that if designing a sign for a door or something that there is room for braille. 

Overall I thought that it was a very interesting movie and I learned a lot from it.  If there was a squeal, I would defiantly watch it.