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“When I make something, which maybe is a work of art, I want this to be in the world. I want it to be sincerely and honestly and responsibly in the world. I want it to have an impact somehow.”

We just found a beautiful trailer for a new documentary about Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, responsible for The Weather Project at the Tate Modern and the New York City Waterfalls. The filmmakers, Henrik Lundø and Jacob Jørgensen followed the artist for 5 years to document his working process and artistic vision on film.

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At the Maker Faire Detroit this last weekend, Scott Klinker , the Designer-in-Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art, performed a series of installations of Spaceframe, his “20-piece large-scale construction toy for kids of all ages.” Watch the video above to see just how large-scale this might be.

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A big question, and Bill Moggridge, the director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and our newest columnist, breaks it open in this lecture at the Smithsonian Design Institute, delivered to K-12 educators from around the country. He recaps the National Design Awards and gives many examples of good design, but also, to round out his definition, many examples of bad as well.

Watch above for his quick crash course, touching on many aspects of our vast discipline.

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Video by Paul Fraser.

Totally amazing find from SIGGRAPH 2010: a modular LED display that can be written on using a light source, like a laser pointer. Now, instead of programming scrolling LED displays, just write on them and be done with it. The piece is by Junichi Akita, an assistant professor at Kanazawa University in Japan.

The tiles are pretty small, and can be joined together along any edge to create an infinite variety of shapes. Once connected, the tiles act as one, seamless unit. Like any LED display, modes are incorporated, from the traditional side to side scroll to the more unconventional tilt. Watch Core77 correspondent Paul Fraser’s video from Siggraph above for a real time demonstration or Akita’s video below.

There isn’t much information on this out there on the web, but you can read Akita’s technical paper here.

Video by Junichi Akita.

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Video by Paul Fraser.

Another video from this year’s SIGGRAPH 2010 Expo: A demo of Organic Motion’s motion capture technology that doesn’t require a special suit (“No Markers” technology). The technology dramatically decreases the time and costs when creating human animations.

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Here’s another insightful video from Eastman Innovation Labs featuring
industrial design guru Richard Seymour, who talks about the gap between the capability of our tools and the extent of our imagination.

Here’s a quote:

We don’t need to talk about what we can do, we need think about what we should do. And that’s the role of the designer, because they might be the only person in the room who’s got that imagination, that capability to think beyond it.

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