Inspirational Design Shorts

How Transformers are designed and made:

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/64266725[/vimeo]

British Pathé newsreel on the opening of Legoland in 1968. Everything about this video is perfect:

from “The Land of Fairy Tales”

Beer Bottle Edison Cylinder:
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/68007497[/vimeo]

http://www.shinelimited.co.nz/work/the-becks-edison-bottle

a-pple-a-day

Love that. Saw it on their site a few weeks ago but could not find the direct link. Thanks for posting it!

You can ride them

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/30546480[/vimeo]

60 years of Vespa
(from:http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672957/watch-60-years-of-chic-vespas-go-by#1)
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/67543910[/vimeo]

Vespa have a great history website:

They went wonderfully crazy in the 1950’s:

That was sweet!

I’m loving this. Watched it 3 times. Remember when stuff used to be cool?

I just saw that ad at the movies last night. It’s hard to explain why we do what we do, all the effort that goes into every decision we make when bringing an idea to life. Made me proud to be a designer.

I’ve fallen down a LEGO internet rabbit hole (BTTF sets announced).

The only non-LEGO part is the bit:

quite accurate considering how much slop is in LEGO gear cogs.

Not a video short, and not directly design related, but I found it inspirational and applicable nonetheless:

without exaggeration or hyperbole, the best video I’ve ever seen times a million.

“Riding the Booster”- camera placed on shuttle booster (with 5.1 sound, I recommend to listen with headphones) from launch to splashdown, too many highlights:

Wil Wheaton on why it’s awesome to be a nerd. I concur.

This is directed to a mother who asked him for advice for her infant daughter. Good one for the nerd parents among us here :wink:

A good quick one about creativity

A pretty cool video about glass blowing neon signs I stumbled upon whilst on the quirky website. It seems a bit of a dying art nowadays!

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/70796983[/vimeo]

Not all the videos are necessarily design shorts, but I’ve been enjoying the Artisan Videos Subreddit.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/69450259[/vimeo]

I thought this was really cool, and I’ve watched it a good 10 times in the past 2 days

Apart from the introductory quote, nice video:

Adam Savage’s “Ground Rules for Success”

I really liked his take on “Follow Your Dreams” (about 13 minutes).

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