Gary Hustwit, who created Helvetica, is now working on a new film about Industrial Design, called Objectified. From the Objectified website:

“Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?”

If you are interested in documentary making, Hustwit gave some tips on interviewing subjects in a recent talk, some of which are documented at Media Bistro (for the lazy – he says “My process of interviewing people is I do not interview people”).

If you have been wishing for a more minimal user interface for Google Reader, or are simply a fan of Helvetica, you’ll be installing this if you haven’t already!

Helvetireader is a userscript that pares down Google Reader to the essentials. In particular, it’s made for looking at feeds in the expanded view, using Keyboard Shortcuts instead of on-screen buttons. It’s not going to suit how everyone uses Google Reader, so you can take the CSS and personalise to your hearts content!

All you need is a browser that supports userscripts, such as Firefox or Safari and, of course, Helvetica.  Visit the Helvetireader website for more information.