Netflix

An inside look into the art, science, and philosophy of design Design lovers, fire up your Netflix. The much-anticipated second season of the documentary series, Abstract: The Art of Design, is coming back this Wednesday, September 25. The show is a fast and entertaining deep dive into leading designers that, as Curbed architecture critic Alexandra Lange puts it, applies ?newfangled technology to the age-old task of explaining what designers do.?
Created by Scott Dadich, the former editor-in-chief of Wired, the show?s first season featured creators ranging from Danish architect Bjarke Ingels to interior designer Ilse Crawford to graphic designer Paula Scher. Now, season two is bringing a new lineup with six episodes highlighting the design of architecture, film, culture, and more. Each episode focuses on a different designer and their art form. This season, we?re looking forward to immersing in the world of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, who, in his decades-long career, has bridged the gap between artistic experiments and architecture, designing everything from a curving brick building to lamps for the developing world.
Then there?s bio-architect Neri Oxman, who comfortably straddles the worlds of architecture, art, interaction design, and synthetic biology. In her role as a professor at MIT, she imagines entirely new methods of digital fabrication, engineering, design, and construction.
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