Design for the Real World: Frisbee

Studio 360
Toss a Frisbee.

Somewhere, right now, at a picnic or on a playing field, someone is pulling out a plate-sized plastic disc to toss around.

Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at the Museum of Modern Art, tells us about how the Frisbee came about and how it has endured.

(Originally aired June 11, 2005)

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