1930s Fashion Designers Imagine Year 2000

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From 1930 to 1941, Pathetone Weekly ran film clips that highlighted ‘the novel, the amusing and the strange.’ At some point during the 1930s (the exact date isn’t clear), Pathetone asked American designers to look roughly 70 years into the future and hazard a guess about how women might dress in Year 2000. Apparently, fashion [...]

Paola Antonelli on Design as the Interface Between Progress and Humanity

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Paola Antonelli — Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the MoMA, longtime proponent of humanized technology, self-described “curious octopus” — has arguably done more for the mainstream infiltration of design literacy than any other individual in contemporary culture. In her recent opening keynote at the unequivocally titled media and ideas conference The Conference in [...]

The Making of Blade Runner

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A quick addition to yesterday’s look back at Siskel & Ebert’s 1982 review of Blade Runner. As we were saying, the film got off to a very shaky start. The production was a mess. Critics panned the film. Filmgoers went to see ET. And all of the rest. It was time to pull out the stops. So, M. [...]

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