Archives for the month of: February, 2011

 

You should see what the Japanese are doing with this.

Start at the 30:00 minute mark. By the way, his wife is pretty awesome too.

Take the video for Paris, for example. Jean-Luc Godard famously said that all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun, but after watching this and literally tearing up at the end, I propose an amendment: all you need is a girl and a font. via fastco.

 

Geeze. What good commercials.

BBC:
BMW:

the last one is so much more epically “inspirational”. oh BMW, aren’t you just savvy?

They should show this video in Portfolio Strategies, it would save a lot of lecture time. hehe. His INNOVATION TOOLKIT is so good.

ITS FEBRUARY!

We should not underestimate the crucial importance of leadership and design joining forces. Our global future depends on it. We will either design our way through the deadly challenges of this century, or we won’t make it. For our institutions – in truth, for our civilization – to survive and prosper, we must solve extremely complex problems and cope with many bewildering dilemmas. We cannot assume that, following our present path, we will simply evolve toward a better world. But we can design that better world. That is why designers need to become leaders, and why leaders need to become designers.
—Richard Farson, Management by Design, 2000

The forerunner to the music video and the kitschiest thing on earth.  Reaching their peak in the 1960′s, Scopitone used 16 mm film clips that played in specially designed jukeboxes made in France.

Feed a quarter into it and let your eyes be dazzled. Here’s a funny little segment from NPR.

And now, for the catchiest part…. The Kessler Sisters:

 

You know you want one. I do.

 

One of my favorites:

 

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