Design Storytelling

This stunning video is from one of my favourite artists of the moment, Doug Foster.

N.B. Watch it on FULL screen.

I was completely blown away by The Heretics’ Gate at Lazarides’ Hell’s Half Acre in the Old Vic Tunnels in 2010. Since then I’ve seen his work (Chimera) again at Lazarides’ Minotaur show and now this film, Ovum, for the Protein Feed and Channel 4 collaboration, Random Acts. 

What I find fascinating about Foster’s films is that he uses the same black back drop and symmetrical mirroring effect each time, yet the results are completely different and equally hypnotising in each work.

Ovum, as Protein describes, takes,

“the female ovum reproductive cell as inspiration, Foster brings the symmetry of the process where the mother nucleus tears itself into two identical daughter nuclei to the forefront of this hauntingly stirring short film.”

Random Acts

Here’s a lovely video interview with Max Lamb from the @proteinfeed crew, in which he talks about happy making things such as the importance of truth to materials, working with your hands and knowing that there’s a human behind a product. Yes, indeed, this is a heart warming way to end the week that has me pining for the workshop.