INSPIRE / Documenting Design at DI2010: Part 1 of 2

Watch Part 2 of Documenting Design.

Doug Pray, Eames Demetrios and Gary Hustwit discussed their notions of filmmaking and their responsibility to document the design industry at the 2010 Design Indaba Conference. This is the first part of a two-part discussion.

In this interview, Demetrios offers constructive advice on how design is in fact a problem-solving device. The real power in design thinking, he says, is the willingness to go on a design journey. In turn, Hustwit explains that the motivation behind Helvetica was a process of surveying and brainstorming solutions through design. Meanwhile, Pray gives philosophical insights into his views on communication and truth through documentary.

Doug Pray

Doug Pray has directed a number of critically acclaimed feature-length documentary films about American subcultures, artists, and maverick characters. He received an MFA from University of California Los Angeles’s Graduate School of Film and Television.

Gary Hustwit

Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker based in New York and London. He has produced eight feature documentaries, including the award-winning I Am Trying To Break Your Heart about the band Wilco and a documentary about electronic music pioneer Robert Moog, Moog.

Eames Demetrios

Eames Demetrios is a filmmaker and the geographer-at-large for Kcymaerxthaere, a parallel universe largely coexistent with our linear world. Described as “three-dimensional fiction”, it is like a novel with every page in a different place – he has installed more than 65 sites in 10 countries.