Movies: Design

  • 2011
    The Roommate

    The Roommate (2011)

    The Roommate

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    When Sara, a young design student from Iowa, arrives for college in Los Angeles, she is eager to fit in and get to know the big city. Her wealthy roommate, Rebecca, is more than eager to take Sara under her wing and show her the ropes. The two become...

    The Roommate
  • 2017
    Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production

    Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production (2017)

    Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production

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    Up until just over 30 years ago, when the desktop computer debuted, the whole design production process would have been done primarily by hand, and with the aide of analog machines. The design and print industries used a variety of ways to get type a...

    Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production
  • 2014
    Blue Gold: American Jeans

    Blue Gold: American Jeans (2014)

    Blue Gold: American Jeans

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    Tracing the history of blue jeans around the globe....

    Blue Gold: American Jeans
  • 2012
    Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See

    Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See (2012)

    Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See

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    This film is about patient and dedicated teaching, about learning to look and visualize in order to design, about the importance of drawing. It is one designer’s personal experience of issues that face all designers, expressed with sympathy and encou...

    Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See
  • 2009
    Objectified

    Objectified (2009)

    Objectified

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    A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them....

    Objectified
  • 1986
    David Macaulay: Cathedral

    David Macaulay: Cathedral (1986)

    David Macaulay: Cathedral

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    Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys France's most famous churches. Travel back to 1214 to explore the design o...

    David Macaulay: Cathedral
  • 2014
    Design 7 Love

    Design 7 Love (2014)

    Design 7 Love

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    Seven people with seven love stories. They ignite the love and hate hidden under the table. In this battle of love, who will survive and who will lose? When the boundary between lies and truth has blurred, who can tell if the others are sincere or no...

    Design 7 Love
  • 2018
    Rams

    Rams (2018)

    Rams

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    RAMS is a documentary portrait of legendary designer Dieter Rams by filmmaker Gary Hustwit. For over fifty years, Rams has left an indelible mark on the field of product design with his iconic work at Braun and Vitsoe, and his influence on Apple. So ...

    Rams
  • 1974
    The World of Buckminster Fuller

    The World of Buckminster Fuller (1974)

    The World of Buckminster Fuller

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    Architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems. For more t...

    The World of Buckminster Fuller
  • 2009
    Food Design

    Food Design (2009)

    Food Design

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    A look at how form, color, smell, consistency, the sounds made during eating, manufacturing technique, history and stories influence food design....

    Food Design
  • 2017
    Pressing On: The Letterpress Film

    Pressing On: The Letterpress Film (2017)

    Pressing On: The Letterpress Film

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    Why has letterpress printing survived? Irreplaceable knowledge of the historic craft is in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. Fascinating personalities intermix with wood, metal, and type as young printers save a traditional process in Press...

    Pressing On: The Letterpress Film
  • 2012
    Stealing Paradise

    Stealing Paradise (2012)

    Stealing Paradise

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    Amanda, a brilliant aeronautical engineer, is enraged when her breakthrough design is stolen and patented by her colleague Brendan. When he is found murdered, she becomes the prime suspect and soon finds she is not only fighting for her design - but ...

    Stealing Paradise
  • 2012
    The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

    The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2012)

    The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

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    Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legisl...

    The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
  • 2009
    Art & Copy

    Art & Copy (2009)

    Art & Copy

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    The personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of all time and the stories behind their campaigns....

    Art & Copy
  • 2018
    Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus

    Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus (2018)

    Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus

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    Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive discipline. It is a synthesis of liberated imagination and stringent structure; cross-medial concepts th...

    Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus
  • 1976
    Design Innovations for Canadian Settlements

    Design Innovations for Canadian Settlements (1976)

    Design Innovations for Canadian Settlements

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    Design Innovations for Canadian Settlements
  • 2016
    Gray Matters

    Gray Matters (2016)

    Gray Matters

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    Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture. Making a reputation with ...

    Gray Matters
  • 2020
    Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story

    Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story (2020)

    Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story

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    Nicknamed “Architect to the Stars,” African American architect Paul R. Williams had an incredible life. Orphaned at the age of four, Williams grew up to build mansions for movie stars and millionaires in Southern California. From the early 1920s unti...

    Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
  • 1989
    David Macaulay: Pyramid

    David Macaulay: Pyramid (1989)

    David Macaulay: Pyramid

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    How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who built these enormous structures, and what did these tombs signify? Host David Macaulay explores the...

    David Macaulay: Pyramid
  • 2023
    Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life

    Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life (2023)

    Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life

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    Deeply thoughtful and illuminating, DRAWING A LIFE reveals the details of artist Geoff McFetridge’s life and work while delving further into the universal questions of what makes a fulfilling life and how to live with intention in the limited time we...

    Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life