The history of design in six short videos | Design. Are you a bit postmodern, or do you belong in the Bauhaus? This is the question that the Open University is posing, should anyone care to click on its Design In A Nutshell offering on the OpenLearn website. The OU hopes to inspire people into taking its design courses through half a dozen short animated films it’s made. Each one is a snapshot of a key 20th century design style or movement, so we’ve got Gothic Revival, Arts and Crafts, Bauhaus, Modernism, American Industrial Design and Postmodernism.
The film’s academic adviser was Clive Hilton, an OU lecturer in design. At the end of each video the viewer is asked a teasing question, such as “Does American industrial design do it for you?” Design in a Nutshell serves a purpose for the OU, though watching them back to back can be a wee bit grating, with repetition of the cartoon-like sound effects. Products. BBC Knowledge Explainer DNA. Blue Cross Blue Shield - Overview. Malcolm Hadley Cinematographer. Ice cream hater. To This Day Project - Shane Koyczan. The making of John Mayer's "Born and Raised" artwork. "Now That Your Dollar Bills Have Sprouted Wings" from Beck's Song Reader. Interviews vidéos exclusives – Matt Pyke.
Short film. Animated films. Old cartroons. Short thrills. Music videos. Movie titles.