20 documentaries every designer should watch

Fabricio Teixeira
UX Collective
Published in
1 min readJul 6, 2016

Some of the documentaries listed below are quite famous, some are completely unknown. More than teaching you anything about Design, these films teach something about people — how they behave, what motivates them and how they shape art and culture at the same time they are shaped by it.

Objectified

Helvetica

Urbanized

Design is One: Lella and Massimo Vignelli

Gucci: The Director

Indie Game

Bill Cunningham New York

Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry

Exit Through the Gift Shop — Banksy

The Waiting Room

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

The City Dark

Pina

Life in a Day

Art & Copy

Design & Thinking

PressPausePlay

Sign Painters

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

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