http://toldbydesign.com design through fictional narrations Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:12:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/john-mayall-nature-disappearing/ http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/john-mayall-nature-disappearing/#comments Sun, 21 May 2017 22:04:06 +0000 http://toldbydesign.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=3072 John Mayall's ecological message in "Nature's disappearing" from 1970 is still relevant today]]> http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/john-mayall-nature-disappearing/feed/ 0 http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/billy-wilder-the-apartment-tennis-racket-strainer/ http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/billy-wilder-the-apartment-tennis-racket-strainer/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2017 18:05:23 +0000 http://toldbydesign.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=3065 Jack Lemmon using a tennis racket as a strainer in Billy Wilder's The Apartment]]> http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/billy-wilder-the-apartment-tennis-racket-strainer/feed/ 0 http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/coen-brothers-hudsucker-proxy-hula-hoop/ http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/coen-brothers-hudsucker-proxy-hula-hoop/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2016 20:38:29 +0000 http://toldbydesign.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=3049 A fictional version of the Hula Hoop invention in Joel and Ethan Coen's movie "The Hudsucker Proxy"]]> http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/coen-brothers-hudsucker-proxy-hula-hoop/feed/ 0 http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/lydia-davis-the-chairs/ http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/lydia-davis-the-chairs/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2016 16:59:06 +0000 http://toldbydesign.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=3047 "The Chairs", Lydia Davis' example of narrative imagination through object observation]]> http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/lydia-davis-the-chairs/feed/ 0 http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/superflux-uninvited-guests/ http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/superflux-uninvited-guests/#comments Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:34:07 +0000 http://toldbydesign.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=3037 Superflux shows us the frictions between an elderly man and his smart home in "Uninvited Guests"]]> http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/superflux-uninvited-guests/feed/ 0 http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/schulz-peanuts-vacuum-cleaner/ http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/schulz-peanuts-vacuum-cleaner/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2015 23:51:02 +0000 http://toldbydesign.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=3031 Lucy complains about Linus' vacuuming noise in Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip]]> http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/schulz-peanuts-vacuum-cleaner/feed/ 0 http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/howard-hawks-i-was-a-male-war-bride-door-handle-chair/ http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/howard-hawks-i-was-a-male-war-bride-door-handle-chair/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2015 12:16:18 +0000 http://toldbydesign.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=3013 Cary Grant having trouble with door handles and sleeping positions in Howard Hawk's "I Was A Male War Bride"]]> http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/howard-hawks-i-was-a-male-war-bride-door-handle-chair/feed/ 0 http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/howard-hawks-i-was-a-male-war-bride-signage-sidecar/ http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/howard-hawks-i-was-a-male-war-bride-signage-sidecar/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2015 22:15:02 +0000 http://toldbydesign.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=3001 Cary Grant having trouble with signage and sidecars in Howard Hawk's "I Was A Male War Bride"]]> http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/howard-hawks-i-was-a-male-war-bride-signage-sidecar/feed/ 0 http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/aki-kaurismaki-match-factory-girl/ http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/aki-kaurismaki-match-factory-girl/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2015 23:35:52 +0000 http://toldbydesign.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=2990 The manufacturing process of matches in Aki Kaurismäki's "The Match Factory Girl"]]> http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/aki-kaurismaki-match-factory-girl/feed/ 0 http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/steven-spielberg-indiana-jones-raiders-lost-ark/ http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/steven-spielberg-indiana-jones-raiders-lost-ark/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2015 22:24:48 +0000 http://toldbydesign.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=2983 Major Arnold Toht unfolds his hanger in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones' "Raiders of the Lost Ark"]]> http://toldbydesign.com/portfolio/steven-spielberg-indiana-jones-raiders-lost-ark/feed/ 0