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99% Invisible

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99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.827.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2010

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

It’s a stick with bristles poking out of it. It doesn’t even qualify as a simple machine, but the careful thought and design that went into the creation of the modern, angled bristle, fat handled toothbrush shows just how much … Continue reading →

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0:00.0

We get support from UC Davis, a globally ranked university working to solve the world's most pressing problems in food, energy, health, education, and the environment.

0:10.0

UC Davis researchers collaborate and innovate in California and around the globe to find

0:14.2

transformational solutions.

0:16.1

It's all part of the university's mission to promote quality of life for all living things.

0:20.1

Find out more at 21st century.

0:21.9

UC Davis. edudavis dot edu

0:28.0

this is 99% invisible I'm Roman Mars the details are not the details. They make the design.

0:34.5

That's what he said.

0:36.5

Quoting legendary designer Charles Eames.

0:39.0

Express, test, and cycle.

0:41.0

I'm John Edson, president of Lunar.

0:43.0

Express, test, and cycle.

0:45.0

There's a conception in the public, I think, that design is a lot about making things pretty.

0:51.0

That's shifting, I think, There's a big DIY movement and maker

0:55.6

movement and people are getting a better sense of how things come to be. We've

0:59.3

always known how kind of buildings came to be because we'd watch them go up. But products just kind of appear on

1:04.2

the store shelf from somewhere, from China, right? But I really love the process of design

1:09.8

and love bringing things to life. Express, test, and cycle.

1:14.0

The story that I want to tell about the details that go into product making

1:17.4

is about a toothbrush.

1:18.6

But there's a bit of a conflict of interest,

1:20.3

or at least the perception of one that requires a disclaimer.

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