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Based in beautiful San Luis Obispo, CA, Jory Brigham designs and manufactures handcrafted furniture with a focus on timeless aesthetics and sustainable materials. From his Googie-inspired Retro collection to Zen-like seating that merges materials, Brigham's work has the design world salivating. In this beautifully rendered video from the Cana Family, we learn about Brigham's family roots in......read more
Sebastian Cox is a young, independent furniture designer from Lincolnshire, UK who works with coppiced hazelwood and other hardwoods that grow in abundance around his home. In this video we get a look at his design and manufacturing process--from harvesting wood with an axe to crafting pieces in his studio--which is innately connected to his interest in sustainability. What really stands out in......read more
You can't talk about mid-century modern furniture without discussing Herman Miller, the Michigan-based manufacturer of some of the era's most iconic pieces. But the company's history runs deeper than the mid-20th century. 108 years deep, to be exact. To commemorate the anniversary, Dutch agency Part of a Bigger Plan created this animation that packs 108 years of design history into 108 seconds.......read more
In what is being called the "3B printing project," creative agency The Ebeling Group deployed 80,000 bees to create two sculptures from beeswax: a Dewar's bottle and a bust of Dewar's founder John Dewar. Since bees build honeycomb inwards, the team had to start with inverse scaffolding to give the insects a framework to work with. A rubber tube connected to the neck of the bottle provided a......read more
Tokyo artist/animator Hiraoka Masanobu has a busy commercial practice that includes directing music videos and illustrating Uniqlo ads, but it's his personal animation projects that we can't get enough of. The latest, "Land," features the woozy, colorful style that has become Hiraoka's signature. With equally excellent sound design and music from Barcelona's Aimar Molero, you'll want to put on......read more
“Shape," the latest effort from After Effects wiz Johnny Kelly, is a tale of progress, technology and the changing shape of the world around us. The film was commissioned by Pivot Dublin for makeshapechange, a project created to “get young people thinking about how the world is made around them, and where design fits in.” Scott Burnett of......read more
In this inspiring clip from Discipline Design, we are granted access to the shared NYC studio space of creative power couple Ana Kras and Devendra Banhart. Kras, who we've featured before, makes beautiful objects, furniture and works on paper in the massive space she shares with Banhart, a musician and all-around creative dude. The video nicely reveals not only the benefits of a good studio......read more
Slow motion cameras like the Phantom Flex 4K have allowed a new generation of filmmakers to capture footage in creative new ways. This video for Siska's "Unconditional Rebel" is perfect proof. Shot at 1000 frames per second in a single take from a car traveling 50 km/h, the video takes us on a surreal three-and-a-half minute journey that, in fact, took only five seconds to shoot. From......read more
We've seen classic record covers used in creative new ways, but filmmaker Vania Heymann takes the cake with this delightful video for "Mayokero," an acapella number from Israeli artist Roy Kafri. The clip features a string of iconic album covers from acts such as ABBA, Prince, Madonna and David Bowie, who sing along to the song's nonsensical lyrics. Simple concept, superbly executed. Also check......read more
From new Spoon album They Want My Soul comes "Inside Out," a drifty downtempo number featuring Britt Daniel's signature raw vocals teetering atop a slow-burning, electronic groove. The track was released alongside this eerie visual clip, in which a seemingly random succession of images dissolve and melt into one another, only vaguely hinting at possible meanings. Contrasted with the rawness and......read more
