Produced ten years after the Rough Sketch this is an updated, finished version, which also reflects advances in theory and research that occurred since the idea for Powers of Ten was first developed. This version adds two powers of ten—a hundredfold increase—to each end of the journey into the universe, and to the return trip…
Polavision was produced for the Polaroid Corporation to demonstrate the features of their new instant-movie camera system – Polavision. The film begins with an introduction to the system, and continues with examples that demonstrate some of the ways the instant-movie camera could be employed by amateur photographers shooting scenes from every day life. Polavision is…
Polavision was produced for the Polaroid Corporation to demonstrate the features of their new instant-movie camera system – Polavision. The film begins with an introduction to the system, and continues with examples that demonstrate some of the ways the instant-movie camera could be employed by amateur photographers shooting scenes from every day life. Polavision is…
Polavision was produced for the Polaroid Corporation to demonstrate the features of their new instant-movie camera system – Polavision. The film begins with an introduction to the system, and continues with examples that demonstrate some of the ways the instant-movie camera could be employed by amateur photographers shooting scenes from every day life. Polavision is…
Polavision was produced for the Polaroid Corporation to demonstrate the features of their new instant-movie camera system – Polavision. The film begins with an introduction to the system, and continues with examples that demonstrate some of the ways the instant-movie camera could be employed by amateur photographers shooting scenes from every day life. Polavision is…
Polavision was produced for the Polaroid Corporation to demonstrate the features of their new instant-movie camera system – Polavision. The film begins with an introduction to the system, and continues with examples that demonstrate some of the ways the instant-movie camera could be employed by amateur photographers shooting scenes from every day life. Polavision is…
The Eames Office designed this brochure to accompany their 1974 exhibition Philosophical Gardens. The show celebrated springtime while exploring seventeen-century work in the field of plant study by Stephen Hales and Robert Hooke.
The film describes Isaac Newton’s inventions, including differential calculus and the mathematical questions relative to it. It also illustrates the classical relationship between gravity and the logarithm of falling bodies. Musical performed by Morris Mizrahi. 3 minutes, 25 seconds
A film simulation of an interactive game, where at the beginning of the program, a player is given the choice of visiting one of several locations from different historical periods: Camelot, Giza, or the Forbidden City. A series of life-threatening situations confronts the player at the chosen location, and in order to survive, the player…
The Eames Loose Cushion Armchair is sleek, polished, and crisply detailed, the molded and padded shell suggests the world of aviation. Yet, it also manages to be at once precise and voluptuous and seems to convey as much the mood of the “seventies” as the plywood furniture did in the “forties.” Eames Loose Cushion Armchair…
Animated graphic symbols presented in a constant time frame are used to diagram and explain the laws of planetary motion devised by the Sixteenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. “Little Suite”, guitar and lute music composed by Galileo Galilei’s father Vincenzo, is performed by Laurindo Almeida. 2 minutes, 48 seconds
In 1977, the Eames Office proposed a plan for an exhibition space in the IBM Corporation’s new regional headquarters in New York City, on Madison Avenue. The 15,000 square-foot space was divided into three separate sections. The ground and lower floors of the new building included a gallery space with the overall goal of creating…
