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Cosmic Zoom animation

March 1, 2018 /

“This short animation transports us from the farthest conceivable point of the universe to the tiniest particle of existence, an atom of a living human cell. The art of animation and animation camera achieve this exhilarating journey with a freshness and clarity. Without words.”
https://www.nfb.ca/film/cosmic_zoom/

I discovered this incredible animation around the same time as I the equally impressive Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames. Both pieces were inspired by Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps an essay by Dutch educator Kees Boeke.

Charles and Ray Eames – Powers of Ten

March 1, 2018 /

I frequently come back to this groundbreaking video by Charles and Ray Eames as it’s such a great example of how to consider changes in scale and different perspectives.

Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only a s a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker- with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell. POWERS OF TEN © 1977 EAMES OFFICE LLC (Available at www.eamesoffice.com)

Graphic Means documentary

January 31, 2018 /

“It’s been roughly 30 years since the desktop computer revolutionized the way the graphic design industry works. For decades before that, it was the hands of industrious workers, and various ingenious machines and tools that brought type and image together on meticulously prepared paste-up boards, before they were sent to the printer.

Graphic Means, explores graphic design production of the 1950s through the 1990s—from linecaster to photocomposition, and from paste-up to PDF.”

Graphic Means is a new documentary directed by Briar Levit www.graphicmeans.com

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