Mmm, pretty type for my collection.. also this typey skateboard would make a nice b’day gift for me later this month — even though I haven’t skated since I was about 10. It would look nice sitting in the corner of my room though..

Sometimes I forget how much I love film, a compelling narrative combined with well executed elements of composition, light and sound — though I also have a thing for hanging out in old cinemas late at night wired on caffeine. Anyway, I’ve had the fortune of having a week off between freelance contracts so taken the opportunity to start exploring films I may have missed over the past year. While I’ve found a number of good ones, as many not so good, I’ve also found there’s quite a few design related films with decent reviews screening at the moment.

Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight, officially opened on June 12 across the US. It’s a documentary on the 80yo American graphic designer, perhaps most famous for his I ♥ NY campaign in the 1970s and he also founded New York magazine.

Art & Copy is a documentary the reveals stories from a range of people involved in some of the most influential advertising campaigns. It’s currently screening at a number of US film festivals.

Finally, from the creator of the film Helvetica, comes Objectified, which is actually screening around the world at the moment. Objectified is a documentary about product design and manufacturing.

Late last year Gemma O’Brien, an Australian graphic design student, executed a popular response to a university design brief based on the themes of vandalism and graffiti. She was inspired by my favourite designer, Stefan Sagmesiter, and named herself after my favourite typeface, Mrs Eaves, by Zuzana Licko. She was interviewed abut the project on Letter Cult.

She was invited to speak at Typo Berlin last week — thanks to the publicity generated by the project. While there she went about repeating the process: