Summary: Take your students on a whirlwind tour of the natural world and the fashion world, ancient times and modern pastimes, and interiors and exteriors with this lively and entertaining video. Narrated by an award-winning actress, it will give them a thorough grounding in the timeless principles of design: balance, rhythm, scale, proportion, emphasis, and harmony. Correlates to all applicable...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Working on schedule and within a budget is crucial in the fast-paced world of design, where success often depends on timing and products must be priced affordably. This program shows how the factors of time and money affect the design process. Case studies for the Apple iPad wall-mount and a go-kart sticker manufacturer highlight cost issues in the design process, including productivity,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This program looks at the creation of two products as it explores the visual, tactile, and aesthetic factors that inform the design process. The 321 Water filter is an attractive personal water purifier aimed at health-conscious women. Tear Lab is a non-invasive medical tool for measuring salt levels in tears. Sharing prototypes and drawings with the camera, the designers of these products talk...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Can sustainability be applied to any design work, whether it's jewelry or architecture? What exactly does it mean to take a sustainable approach to design? This program examines the art of conceiving and creating physical products according to ecologically sound principles. Viewers learn the importance of, and the basic working framework for, design work that utilizes renewable resources, makes...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Thanks in part to high-tech advances that enable the creation of virtually any image, design is one of the most exciting fields to enter in the 21st century. This program looks at ways in which designers collect and organize information using digital technology and how these methods are helping to evolve new forms and strategies in the design world. Specific topics include basic principles of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Use this video to introduce your students to the elements of design: color, line, shape, form, pattern, and texture. In addition to the customary design disciplines-interior, clothing, landscape, and architecture-the video also features more unusual venues like the family dog, kids, and professional models. Called "a good introduction to the basic elements of design" by Instructional Video....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Electronic gaming has come a long way since the first Space Invaders machines appeared in local shopping centers. Today, video games are highly sophisticated and make up a lucrative global business-larger, by some calculations, than the film and music industries combined. This program features the expertise of gamers and game developers alike, venturing behind the scenes to explore the making...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Two designers, two very different digital display technologies: Christopher Pearson has prototyped decorative animated digital wallpaper, while Tom Barker has invented the SmartSlab, a large-scale modular interactive LED panel. Segment one of this program shows how Pearson, having accepted a commission to "wallpaper" an entire restaurant, triumphs over every technological and logistical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Graphic designers with the consulting firm Navy Blue must produce a new corporate identity for Digital Animations Group, a Scottish company on the cutting edge of 3-D technology. Their task is to create a logo that captures the company's spirit and works across different formats, such as on paper, signs, windows, and Web pages. This program follows the entire process, from sitting down with the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: With its ability to create emotion and influence moods, color can be used as a powerful tool in interior design and fashion. In this program interior designer Brandi Hagen discusses the color system, the history of color study, and the development of color theories. Viewers learn the difference between hue, shade, tint, value, and chroma; primary and secondary colors and warm and cool colors;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: In graphic design, says Marian Bantjes, injecting your individuality into a project is heresy. But Bantjes built her career doing just that, bringing her signature delicate illustrations to storefronts, valentines, even genetic diagrams. The result is a stunning body of work created at the intersection of word and form. In this TEDTalk, Bantjes discusses the processes through which she develops...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010