Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Charles and Ray Eames: Powers of 10


I seen this super short film a few years back by Charles & Ray Eames, a couple of crazy designers who were actually a married couple (Ray being the wife) and were HUGE contributors to the design field... aka architecture, industrial design, furniture design, graphic design, and even film. Most of the work is familiar to anybody, and you've most likely seen their designs before without knowing it, since many still influence modern furniture today, but we don't always know about the artists behind these everyday objects. An architect friend of mine got me obsessed with them years ago, but I was just looking them up again today for some reason.
They were such a cool, powerful, and creative couple....

So this short documentary called Powers of 10, done in 1977, depicts the relative scale of the universe in factors of ten....
It sounds smart, right? Well watch it, because it's actually good.
And of course, it starts off in Chicago....