An amazing photo series by photographer Markus Reugels. “Refractions” captures droplets of water that show a refraction of a background image, transforming them into amazing tiny liquid planets.
Ever wonder how the popular building toy Legos are made? Wonder no longer as National Geographic Channel‘s series Ultimate Factories shows the process from beginning to end. Above is a design session in the company’s “idea factory.” Sounds magical, doesn’t it? What’s more, the show features a junior designer and his story of writing the company at the age of 12, asking how he could become a Lego designer. Lego wrote back and detailed an educational track that included art and product design. Years later, the designer has his dream job and the rest of us are overwhelmed by the urge to say “awwwww.” See the entire episode posted here.
- J.Lin
The Making of a Blueware Vase by Glithero
January 20th, 2012 Posted In:Botanical
Film and Photography
Making
London based designers Glithero are masters at documenting their creation process. Although I have seen their Blueware Vases before I hadn’t seen this beautiful ‘making of’ film. The process used is called cyanotypes, where direct impressions of botanical specimens are captured on earthenware, using photosensitive chemicals. Read the rest of this entry »
After crossing Cunningham and Bieber off my list of must-see movies, I’ve added the gorgeous-looking Linotype: The Film, a feature-length documentary centered around the Linotype type casting machine. The machine that revolutionized printing was called the eighth wonder of the world by Thomas Edison, and the film tells the story how it impacted society.