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Travel the world through art! (K-5th Grade)
Wednesdays; 2 p.m. at John and Judy Gay Library (JJGL)
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It Might Get Messy! (6th-12th Grade)
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Any designer who runs a studio, office, or firm is entrepreneurial. In fact, anyone with a studio already has an infrastructure for entrepreneurial content development, and with the technological developments over the last few decades, there are more opportunities now than ever. The use of computers has allowed not only new tools for creating design, but also enables makers with entirely new ways to prototype, promote, and sell their products. Becoming...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Radical Gardener is a rollercoaster-ride into the badlands of art and advertising featuring Malcolm McLaren, Jonathan Meese, Jeff Koons, Graham Fink, Guido Heffels, Kalle Lasn, Sebastian Horsley, Oliviero Toscani and Dr. Pussy. Today radical has become a buzzword for everything, from art to business to politics, but what does it really mean? Hermann Vaske goes on a journey to investigate the radical borderlines of art, exploring the very nature...
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Language
English
Description
The decision to develop a new squeezable Marmite bottle means altering a container style that had gone unchanged for 103 years. This program follows the process from prototype to final design and the emergence of a brand-new product which the design team hopes will revitalize the Marmite business. Confronting the technical challenges arising from Marmite's thick consistency, the team enlists the help of a renowned package-design guru and, after a...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
This program explains how product designers work, reviewing the development stage, its application, and the factors that influence final design, such as aesthetics, environmental sustainability, legalities, materials, and more. Students also learn the importance of the relationship between the designer, the client, and end users. The video uses case studies of designers at work in a variety of industries, and lets viewers know about the range of design...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
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; and monochromatic, analogous, and complementary colors....
Pub. Date
[2013], c2007
Language
English
Description
This program takes students through the range of techniques used in the production of modern animation. Beginning with the various methods of creating an animation, the video explores aspects such as character development, backgrounds, adding sound and voice, and the use of wire frame in 3-D work. The many roles in an animation team, including producers, directors, computer technicians, artists, and voice actors are also considered, along with applications...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010], c2011
Language
English
Description
Once advertising students have assimilated a basic knowledge of visual principles, they can move on to more advanced working methods - the ones that garner awards as well as customers. This program shows how to attract a reader's attention with the layout concepts commonly known as picture window, silhouette, square zero, Mondrian, closure, oversizing, juxtaposition, surrealism, and shock. Examples show how graphic designers direct attention within...
Pub. Date
[2010], c2006
Language
English
Description
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 National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act....
Pub. Date
[2010], c2006
Language
English
Description
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. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
Taking viewers to the crossroads of aesthetic, functional, and sustainability issues, this program looks at aspects of design that can have negative ecological consequences. Students learn about eco-friendly design and the use of life-cycle assessments by architects and product designers to ensure that their work has minimal environmental impact. Sustainable design techniques are investigated through case studies of a "zero energy" home that makes...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2009
Language
English
Description
World-renowned architect I. M. Pei was already in his 90s when he took on designing the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. This documentary, from award-winning filmmaker, Bo Landin, visits Alhambra and Cordoba in Spain, and Cairo to search for references to understand the essence of Pei's architecture that will find its historical place in an Islamic world stretching from Cordoba to Samarkand.
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
For some designers, the thought of promoting their own work is overwhelming. They may even believe that having creative talent means they should leave the advertising and marketing to others. With a strong focus on designers and artists, this program explores strategies for achieving commercial success. The benefits of having a professional portfolio, photographs, business cards, and a Web site are emphasized, along with how to use the five Ps-product,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2011], c2011
Language
English
Description
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 openly about their work. We see how their development...
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Language
English
Description
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 of games as well as examining their uses in education and...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
It's natural to dream of awards and achievements that spotlight one's unique gifts - but the best designers know when to leave ego at the door and contribute to a group effort. This program shows how design teams and individual designers working in a collaborative setting use materials, techniques, and processes to create a product. Viewers learn the importance of working toward a common goal, beginning with a client interview and proceeding through...
Series
Language
English
Description
Since its founding, Paul Orfalea's Kinko's empire has grown to more than 1,500 stores and 23,000 employees worldwide. And Pleasant Rowland's American Girl dolls, second only to Barbie in U.S. sales, made her $700 million when she sold her company to Mattel. How did these incredible entrepreneurs do it? Section one of this program profiles Orfalea, who talks about overcoming dyslexia while growing up and his business philosophy, which is based on his...
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Language
English
Description
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 good design, the importance of understanding the viewer...
20) Sports Worlds
Pub. Date
[2014], c2012
Language
English
Description
Sustainability is increasingly a consideration in the design of sports facilities. This film shows how these concerns influences architecture for the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and the soccer stadium built for remote Manaus, Brazil, for the 2014 World Cup.
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