Design Videos for Education and Inspiration from September

These are all design and creativity related videos, which go to explore new materials, manufacturing and also profile artists, designers and movements through design history.

How is printing ink made? What is the evolution of rendering? These are just a few of the questions these videos answer in truly magnificent and interesting videos. Previously we have had some great roundups of the best design videos in both August and July. We were also very succesful in another design video collection ‘The Best in Youtube Industrial Design and CAD Video Tutorials‘ which was featured on Core77.

Ed Vaizey: the London Design Festival

Minister for Culture, Communications & Creative Industries.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZFkJiOsCU0[/youtube]

Q&A: ‘Aesthetics as a means to Heal’

From the London Design Festival 2010.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-EnRD1NTr0[/youtube]

The Future of Screen Technology

From TAT’s open innovation experiement, as featured by Core77 and gizmodo.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7_mOdi3O5E[/youtube]

Design Council: What is Good Design?

To coincide with the launch of the Design Council’s Good Design Plan, eight top designers give us their definition of good design.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SFncmn3pTs[/youtube]

Where Good Ideas Come From

This video comes from designer Steven Johnson

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU[/youtube]

Dell Unveils Convertable Windows 7 Tablet

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Dell’s Dave Zavelson shows off the company’s new 10-inch Windows 7 tablet.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4i59n1-qgs[/youtube]

Citroen Survolt Vs Agni Z2

Electric showdown between the racecar and supercar, for the very first time.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgoXticUgvU[/youtube]

Electrolux Design Lab 2010

This video reveals the eight finalists of the 2010 competition.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0cxYgoja48[/youtube]

Mozilla Seabird 2D

Designed by Billy May.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG3tLxEQEdg[/youtube]

London Design Festival 2010: The Visitor

The Visitor is a collective show of works by Okay Studio and their friends, curated by Andrew Hathornthwaite and Shai Akram.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/15227066[/vimeo]

Making Future Magic: iPad Light Painting

This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14958082[/vimeo]

How Ink Is Made

A Chief Ink Maker shows how colour and ink is created from the raw ingredients–powder, varnish, and passion. Everything designers and printers need to know about the process, the challenges and joy of ink making.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fypi6dAJB8E[/youtube]

BlackBerry PlayBook Review

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaez_4m9mQ[/youtube]

Mies van der Rohe – Visions Of Space 1/7 (Less is More)

First aired BBC4, 2003; ABC, 2004 In ‘Visions of Space’, Robert Hughes tackles the work and lives of three remarkable 20th-century architects: Albert Speer, Mies van der Rohe, and Antonio Gaudi – whose work did so much to shape the modern world.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUQdQWf4otU[/youtube]

Freerider Skatecycle

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfJMnXRM6r4[/youtube]

Floating Aluminium , Aluminium Foam

This is aluminum foam which is floating and has remarkable property of matter including noise and impact absorbent, lightness, etc. The new material is produced by Foamtech of Korea.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7v1K0wBxqY[/youtube]

The Quest for Realsim

From James Blinn, 1980.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbSBUEH0PYo[/youtube]

Vision in Product Design

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpOY0f6rR6Y[/youtube]

Gesture Remote

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CcG9BOQwBs[/youtube]

ORA ITO

Ito Morabito’s Ora-Gami chair.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/11102890[/vimeo]

Augmented City 3D

The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14294054[/vimeo]