The NOVA channel on PBS has put up a cool site revolving around it’s documentary ‘The car of the future’. Not only can you download the documentary (you have to watch it in sections) but you can also edit the content to create your own ‘user generated content’. If it’s good enough they may feature it on their site. To me however I just liked watching to documentary.
VIA: NOVA – PBS
How do speed, creativity and innovation intertwine in the design process? In this Connections episode from Lunar Designs Icon-o-cast, Gretchen Anderson and Lisa Leckie talk with Steve Portigal of Portigal Consulting about getting results through design research.
Dieter Rams, designer – Cold War Modern from Victoria & Albert Museum on Vimeo.
50 years ago, record players didn’t look like machines. They looked like old-fashioned, brown wood furniture. But in 1956, Dieter Rams’s SK4 record player, nicknamed Snow White’s Coffin, changed all that.
VIA: Vimeo
What new technological developments will change our lives in the months and years ahead? This New Year’s Eve, we talk with noted futurist and technology forecaster Paul Saffo. Saffo is consulting associate professor of engineering at Stanford University and a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford Media X research network.
Via: Core77 & KQED radio
As he did for Helvetica’s namesake typeface, Gary Hustwit gathered the world’s top designers for his forthcoming documentary Objectified, telling the story of the magic behind the objects we use every day.
VIA: Gizmodo
