Perhaps their most successful film, “The Powers of Ten” is one such model into the nature of scale. Charles and Ray’s documentary, “Powers of Ten,” has been seen as an exemplar for teaching and understanding the importance of scale for nearly four decades. Understanding scale, or as the Eameses said, “the effect of adding another zero,” has the power to make us better scholars and better citizens. We hear about scale every day, whether it be supertankers, stars burning thousands of lightyears away, the study of microscopic viruses, or global warming. As usual, they are exemplary in their concision, clarity, and charm.” “One principle at a time, little by little, and they’ll educate the whole world. Because such Eames models managed to capture the essence of the problem, they were in fact quite satisfying in their own right. But both films are models in a more important sense: they are models of the idea of scale. And, indeed, the final version of “Powers of Ten” has quite a few differences. Only by carrying the idea all the way through could one see the right way to approach the problem. For example, in the creation of the project that became the film “Powers of Ten,” first came a test known as “Truck Test,” then the production of “Rough Sketch”, which was a model of the idea of the journey in spatial scale. Looking back at the way their office worked, there was a constant sense that the best way to understand a process was to carry it all the way through. The Eameses often carried an idea through multiple versions in order to find the right approach to a problem.Ī film could be a model, not simply a presentation of an idea, but a way of working it out. The exploration into film helped them explore an idea, work out the presentation and the layers of information and understand a process or theory. The films were meant to have wide appeal and distilled complex ideas into efficient and orderly maxims that fit into the Eames aesthetic of simplicity, integrity and beauty of form. Much like their furniture designs, the Eames films aimed to “get the best to the most for the least…to reach the greatest number of people, ” and prioritized clarity, approachability, and idealism over any romantic notions of tradition or pure innovation within the medium of film. One of the modeling tools they used quite frequently was film.īetween 19, Charles and Ray Eames produced over 125 films, beginning with abstracted and poignant meditations on various kinds of toys and later delving into mathematical concepts, computers, architecture, and history. The model was a key tool in their design process which allowed them to walk through an experience and offered a way to visualize the possibilities and the layers of meaning.
Ray and Charles Eames used many media to model experience and ideas. But the Eameses were more than just designers of furniture, they were masters of exploration and experimentation into the realm of experience. To most people, the Eames name brings to mind rows and rows of molded plywood chairs and Herman Miller furniture from the 1950’s.
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