Put on your favorite seven and a half minutes of music and hit play on the video above. This silent series of stop motion studies riffs and reinvents the structures of a simple matchstick over and over again.
The stop motion shorts were created over the course of six months by Tokyo-based designer Tomohiro Okazaki of Swimming Design. From his (translated) bio:
Design work provides an opportunity to face worlds and events that I have never known before, acts that connect with people and society, and the possibility of discovering and assembling new ways of understanding and structure of the world.
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Watch these matchstick and made in Japan videos next:
• Unendurable line – Design Ah!
• Matchstick Triangle Puzzle – The Curiosity Show
• GRADATIONs, Daihei Shibata’s study of transitions
• Stick Match, a stop-motion animation
• It’s different from what you expected (Unexpected Outcomes) from Design Ah!
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