Category Archives: video

This is how you did Industrial Design in the 1960s

By gavin | Published: August 5, 2010
Design story: The Decanter from Landor Associates on Vimeo. “The Decanter,” a promotional film produced by Walter Landor and Associates in the 1960s, shows the start-to-finish process of several of Landor’s designs for Old Fitzgerald whiskey. Narrated by Walter himself, the film depicts creative teams illustrating and critiquing designs, industrial designers fabricating models, and research teams [...]
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I See Steaks In My Sleep

By gavin | Published: July 2, 2010
I See Steaks In My Sleep from Department of the 4th Dimension on Vimeo. Keep an eye on the knife. Envious of his facility with that thing.
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Before there was Megamind, there was Lord Insidious

By gavin | Published: June 18, 2010
From the description: “This commercial for online storage site driveway.com came out in 2000, and featured a parody of a supervillain, Lord Insidious, which I created. This spot was even featured at Cannes that year. Now Dreamworks is coming out with their movie, Megamind, about a giant brained supervillain in a black outfit with a high [...]
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Diapers & Soap & Our Robot Overlords

By gavin | Published: June 13, 2010
Enjoyed this video from the Singularity Hub article “What’s The Secret Behind Diapers.com Success? A Kiva Robot Warehouse“. Did you know most online retailers use 5-6 different box sizes? Diapers.com uses 20. Plus they have some fancy computer science going on with their box packing software. Interesting stuff.
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Martin Gardner on The Nature of Things

By gavin | Published: May 28, 2010
The Nature of Things / Martin Gardner from Wagner Brenner on Vimeo. Watched this last night. Like many, I first discovered Martin Gardner while attempting to read Scientific American as a kid. This video reminds me why he was so interesting: math, juggling, puzzles, magic tricks and even computers. Check out the segments with John Conway [...]
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Logorama

By gavin | Published: May 9, 2010
“What better way to kick off our brand new film feature, than with Logorama, the winner of this year’s Oscar for animated short. Created by French animation studio H5, Logorama sees a universe and its inhabitants created entirely from globally recognised brand names and symbols. The film opens to Dean Martin’s ‘Good Morning Life, revealing [...]
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San Francisco 1958 on Vimeo

By gavin | Published: October 30, 2009
San Francisco 1958 from Jeff Altman on Vimeo. A relaxing way to start Friday. Nice soundtrack too.
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Sea Orchestra: The Making Of (via Vimeo)

By gavin | Published: November 13, 2008
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Maeve installation at Architecture Biennale Venice on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

By gavin | Published: September 16, 2008
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Xerox Star introduction & promotional video – part 1 of 3 (via nfoo)

By gavin | Published: July 28, 2008
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