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Abstract: The Art of Design
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Abstract: The Art of Design

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Eight designers get an episode each in this Netflix docuseries, and every one treats its subject as a working problem-solver rather than a celebrity. Tinker Hatfield walks through the Nike Air Max and Air Jordan sketches that turned sneakers into cultural objects. Illustrator Christoph Niemann breaks down how a single line becomes a New Yorker cover. Stage designer Es Devlin describes building sets for Kanye West and the Olympics that have to work at stadium scale and still read as intimate. Architect Bjarke Ingels tours a Copenhagen power plant doubling as a ski slope, and interior designer Ilse Crawford explains why a hotel room's light switch placement matters as much as its furniture. Portrait photographer Platon talks through the split-second decisions behind his close-ups of world leaders. Each episode mixes studio visits, sketches, prototypes, and interviews with the designers' collaborators and critics, treating design less as decoration and more as the invisible structure of everyday objects and spaces.