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Video's on Design & Creativity

Thomas Heatherwick - building the Seed Cathedral
a future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station .... and one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light

Video - Designer Tim Brown
-- on designers must think big, what can creative thinking do for society ..

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls the shift to local collaborative, participatory "design thinking."

Video - Biomimicry in action for Design
-- a self proclaimed natue nerd, Janine Benyus' concept of biomimicry has galvanised architects, designers, scientists and engineers into exploring new ways of designing ..

Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered amd more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results.

Where good ideas come from - a visual narrative

Michael Pawlyn: Using natures genius in architecture

How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TED Salon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun.

Better by Design CEO summit 2010: Adam Lowry
creating positive change through design integration ... great video for sustainable product design

How to build a toaster from scratch - fascinating design concept

It takes an entire civilisation to build a toaster. Designer Thomas Thwaites found out the hard way, by attempting to build one from scratch: mining ore for steel, deriving plastic from oil ... it's frankly amazing he got as far as he got. A parable of our interconnected society, for designers and consumers alike.

Philippe Starck
-- with no pretty slides to show -- spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question
"Why design?" Listen carefully for one perfect mantra ..

Elizabeth Gilbert..
A different way to think about creativity!

Angela Belcher - using nature to grow batteries
inspired by an abalone shell, Angela Belcher programs viruses to make elegant nanoscale struuctures that humans can use.

David McCandless on visualisation and patterns

Johanna Blakely on copyright

Copyright law's grip on the film, music and software barely touches the fashion industry .. and fashion benefits in both innovation and sales, say's Johanna Blakely. She talks about what all creative industries can learn from fashion's free culture

Frank Gehry
gives TEDsters his take on the power of failure, his recent buildings, and the all-important “Then what?” factor.

Captain Organic - Ross Lovegrove on organic design

How interesting is design, check this clip Yves Behar Designer.

Creativity: Amy Tan on Creativity

The power of participatory design
When ideas have sex!
-- author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engie of the human progress has been meeting and mating ideas to make new ideas. Its not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is ..

Architectural fly through - youtube video