One of our favourite design podcasts around has to be 99% Invisible, in which Roman Mars covers topics including infrastructure, technology and a bit of history to keep your mind ticking.

It’s a great look at the craft behind all things art and design, and we think Mr. Mars has another winner on his hands with a proposed TV idea he describes as ‘Wes Anderson’s How It’s Made.’

Well, had on his hands is the best way to put it, as Netflix rejected his idea for a show of “deep dive facts over well shot, extremely satisfying clips”, as he revealed in a viral Tweet this weekend.

The context for the tweet was this widely shared video of a road marker specialist crafting a bicycle symbol through a freehand yet inhumanly precise method. Watch the extremely satisfying clip below, courtesy of a more ‘conventional’ kind of artist, Lee Madgwick.

Not tonight Netflix, I’ve found something else to watch till at least midnight.

— Lee Madgwick (@LeeMadgwick) May 22, 2020

Wouldn’t you kill for drawing skills like those? We’d also kill for a show full of clips in this vein, as narrated by the ever-inquisitive and informed Mr. Mars.

Alas, the pitch for a show on the beauty of process was met with disinterest from Netflix producers. But as this was circa five years ago, maybe it’s time for Roman to re-pitch it, especially off the back of his own tweet going as viral as the clip itself.

Whether the show happens or not, we can still enjoy

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