Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more.
Geometry is perhaps the most obviously aesthetic branch of mathematics, and marvellously suited to visual play – a property that the German animator Henning M Lederer explores to great effect in this short video. Inspired by the blog Geometry Daily, in which the German graphic designer Tilman strives to create minimalist compositions that are ‘unique but also as simple as possible’, Lederer takes on the challenge of this limitation to create mesmerising vignettes of morphing shapes.
Animator: Henning M Lederer
video
History of science
Ideas ‘of pure genius’ – how astronomers have measured the Universe across history
29 minutes
video
Art
Background music was the radical invention of a trailblazing composer
17 minutes
video
Computing and artificial intelligence
Why large language models are mysterious – even to their creators
8 minutes
video
Design and fashion
A ceramicist puts her own bawdy spin on the folk language of pottery
14 minutes
video
Home
How an artist transformed a dilapidated hunting lodge into a house made of dreams
8 minutes
video
Beauty and aesthetics
In art, the sublime is a feedback loop, evolving with whatever’s next to threaten us
9 minutes
video
Beauty and aesthetics
Can you see music in this painting? How synaesthesia fuelled Kandinsky’s art
10 minutes
video
Physics
To change the way you see the Moon, view it from the Sun’s perspective
5 minutes
video
Information and communication
An animation built from road signs is a whirlwind study of flash communication
2 minutes