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Hi,
These are some of the DVDs that you might find useful.
Best regards
Kasthuri Anandasivam
Head, Art, Design & Media Library
81,
Tel: +65 6316 8950
Fax: +65 6791 9539
1. Title: Artfully crafted
[videorecording] / produced by Sound
Venture Productions & Barry Hobin ; producer/director,
Katherine Jeans ; writer, Michael Laewen.
Publication info:
Summary: A look at two
different design movements, the Arts &
Crafts and Art Nouveau periods.
and
hand-crafted fittings of bronze, wood and glass
that
reflect the unique arts and crafts period.
Designers and craftsmen worked to ensure that every
aspect of the home is beautiful as well as useful.
the
exquisite details of the Art Nouveau Period.
2. Title: Bauhaus
[videorecording] : the face of the 20th
century / producer,
by
Frank Whitford.
Publication info:
c2004.
Summary: Looks at the
development of the Bauhaus and the key
figures involved in it.
3. Title: The Coca-Cola
bottle and the red and blue chair
Publication info:
[distributor], c2003.
Summary:
"Coca-Cola" features probably the most celebrated
American package of all time, the Coca-Cola bottle,
which has retained its essential shape since 1916.
"Rietveld chair" spotlights Gerrit Rietveld's Red and
Blue
Chair, a furniture style the artisan debuted in
1919
and which is symbolic of 20th-century Modernism.
4. Title: Composition
cutlery and the Swatch [videorecording] /
co-produced by RM Arts, NRK, VARA, YLE and EDF in
association with Arte.
Publication info:
6rinceton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
c2003.
Summary: Part one of this
program examines the volume of
products created by Tapio Wirkkala, including the 1963
cutlery set called Composition. In part two, the
Swatch phenomenon is featured.
5. Title: Encounters with
contemporary designers
[videorecording] / a film conceived and written by
Françoise
Darmon ; directed by Jean-Dominique
Ferrucci ; co-produced by Centre Georges Pompidou ...
[et
al.] ; with the participation of La delegation aux
arts
plastiques ... [et al.].
Variant title: Series
subtitle from label Exhibition of contemporary
design
Publication info:
2004, c1997.
Summary: Showcases the
finished products that
directly reflect the relationship of style to
practicality.
6. Title: Masters of design
[videorecording] / editor &
producer, Kostas Metaxas ; video production,
Exero.com.
Publication info: [S.l.]
: Exero Media, c2004.
Summary: Interviews with
worldwide designers.
7. Title: Sitting down
[videorecording] : the art of the chair /
Le
centre Georges Pompidou ... [et al.] presents ; a
film
conceived and written by Françoise Darmon ;
directed by Olivier Megaton ; with the participations
of
La delegation aux arts plastiques and Le ministère
des
affaires etrangères.
Publication info:
2004, c1999.
Summary: Six leading
contemporary designers discuss their
technical
and aesthetic approaches to making places
for
people to sit down.
From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007
10:52 PM
To:
Subject: [ARLIS-L] graphic design
DVDs
Hi,
can anyone recommend quality documentaries on graphic designers?
I’m looking for biographies and overviews of graphic design history
– not an overview of the profession or how to do graphic design.
Any suggestions?
Heather
(Ball) Gendron, MLIS
Head,
Art and Architecture Library
Virginia
Tech
302
Cowgill Hall (mailing address)
107
Surge Building (temporary location)
ph
540.231.9272