Documentaries Tagged “design”
Objectified
Objectified
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on...
Car of the Future
Car of the Future
This one-hour program is divided into six chapters. Hitting The Road. Projections suggest that by 2050 there will be two billion vehicles on the world’s roads, two and a half times as many as there are today. The “Car Talk” duo, brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hit the road in search of the car of the future.
Hydrogen Fuel Cells. Ice...
Design: e²
Design: e²
The Green Apple. David Owen, a writer for The New Yorker, discusses the complex issues of sustainability as they relate to urban and suburban life. Green Manhattan, an article that Owen wrote for The New Yorker about the city’s inherent sustainability, was a major inspiration for the e² series.
Green for All. Learn more about the in...
The Beauty of Maps: Medieval Maps
The Beauty of Maps: Medieval Maps
Documentary series looking at maps in incredible detail to highlight their artistic attributions and reveal the stories that they tell.
The Beauty of Maps (Seeing the Art in Cartography) is yet another example of a BBC television series which focuses on matters concerning data visualization.
It is another proof how visualization is...
The Beauty of Diagrams
The Beauty of Diagrams
Series in which mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the stories behind some of the most familiar scientific diagrams.
Vitruvian Man – He looks at Leonardo da Vinci’s world-famous diagram of the perfect human body, which has many layers from anatomy to architecture, and defines our species like no other drawing before or since.
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Why Beauty Matters
Why Beauty Matters
Philosopher Roger Scruton presents a provocative essay on the importance of beauty in the arts and in our lives.
In the 20th century, Scruton argues, art, architecture and music turned their backs on beauty, making a cult of ugliness and leading us into a spiritual desert.
Using the thoughts of philosophers from Plato to Kant, an...