The shadow of magazine publisher Conde Nast hangs over the whole project. At its worst, it swamps the screen with imagery, trusting us to be impressed without offering criticism or context for the subjects’ glossy portfolios. It’s delightful to see so much money thrown at people who, almost unanimously, think best with a pen and a pad of paper.Īt its best, Abstract illustrates that work through building tours, crits, and portrait sessions, augmenting everyday reality with animation and digital transformations, making designers into action figures and superheroes. Niemann’s episode gives him the screen as his sketchbook to talk about his process, to play with Legos, to explain the very concept of abstraction via an animated “Abstract-O-Meter.” He feels less like a documentary subject than director Morgan Neville’s collaborator (or maybe hijacker), willing himself into and out of situations as a grown-up Harold with a purple crayon.Ībstract brings newfangled technology to the age-old task of explaining what designers do. With pictures! Niemann is one of eight subjects of the new Netflix documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design, which premieres February 10. Forget Woody Allen (if you haven’t already), illustrator Christoph Niemann is here to represent the urban neurotic creative.
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