In 1977 Charles and Ray Eames made a documentary film called Powers of Ten. The second half of the film includes a slow zoom into a man’s hand, right the way through cells and molecules all the way down to an atomic structure. It’s extraordinarily engaging, beginning at a familiar human context, and visualising something [...]
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November 2nd, 2006 by Schulze · 1 Comment
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This post is going to be about objects that celebrate their functions. This was an area of research for me during my time at the Royal College of Art. I’m going to follow on from Matt’s post on Disco and intrinsic activities. More show than tell here I think. Here is my favourite piece of [...]
October 24th, 2006 by Schulze · 4 Comments
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So I’ve been thinking about hands and arms. I started by thinking of extremely small hands, on my hands. So here are some drawings from that thinking. This drawing is of a toy that shrinks your hands down so you can play in a small world, with small figures. Your fingers are all connected up [...]
October 5th, 2006 by Schulze · 2 Comments
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Hello. I think I’m mostly going to post drawings from my sketchbooks, and talk around those for a while. Since a lot of my thinking starts like this. My sketchbooks are also places where I put ideas that would be too difficult to make, so they just get drawn instead. I think phones mostly used [...]
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