This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

The only time you should really rob a bank is on a Friday afternoon.

There's still need it to be a way to steal something and get it out of the bank. The guiding principles you do not want to get caught.

When I go into a bank, especially if I have to stand in line waiting to make a deposit, my mind

Wonders and one of the first places it wanders to is how I would rob the place.

I look at the exits and the entrances, the layout of the building. How could it be done?

Most of the time, buildings are our friends. But it's fun to recast the building as the enemy. The obstacle we have to overcome.

Well, I guess it's a good thing we made our last Kickstarter goal.

That's producer Katie Mingle.

The puzzle of how to get the money out of the bank is one that our culture has been obsessed with for a long time.

The first recorded bank robbery took place in the 1860s and basically ever since we've been seduced by the idea of the heist and the people that do them.

Today we'll meet three people who all tried in their own way to beat the bank with designs that go from the spectacularly complicated to the deceptively simple.

Oh, and one of them actually pulled it off several times.

Heist one mastermind, a loner, location, Los Angeles, California.

So I'm a loner and I'm a designer and artist. I'm based in London.

My work relates to the idea that design can be a plot and I think what I'm fascinated by is the fact that it never has to happen.

So you have absolute freedom to fantasise about whatever you want.

And with this in mind, Gainer set out to make her heist as big and complicated as possible.

A sort of go big or go home style heist.

And she was interested in the interplay between Hollywood movies about heists and real life heists.

This is really weird feedback loops that happen in Hollywood.

Hollywood being the intrinsic pull on everything that relates to the iconography of a heist.

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