Design: Understanding the Elements and Design: Understanding the Principles DVDs

The LRC recently aquired a 2-part DVD set: 

Design: Understanding the Elements

Design: Understanding the Principles

Examines the elements of design

Where to Find Them and Borrowing Time

Design: Understanding the Elements  is shelved as Call # NK1510 .D47 2007. Design: Understanding the Principles is shelved as Call # NK1510 .D473 2007. As a DVD they can be found on the top shelf of the DVD Bin in front of Bookstack 3. This DVD can be viewed in the library by students, or checked out for a period of 2 weeks by staff and faculty. 

Design: Understanding the Elements

Description*
Design: Understanding the Elements, featuring a professor and students from Parsons School of Design, examines the elements of design. It discusses line; shape, including two- and three-dimensional, geometric, and organic shapes; visual and tactile textures; size; and such color terminology as value, hue, complementary, analogous, triadic, additive, subtractive, and primary. The DVD includes examples from such fields as architecture, fashion, interior design, and art.


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About the Author*

Features professor John Roach from Parson School of Design. 

Design: Understanding the Principles

Description*
Design: Understanding the Principles outlines the elements of design (color, size, texture, line, and shape). This DVD teaches how to combine them to achieve the principles of design. It discusses unity, including balance, symmetry, asymmetry, and formal and informal balance; dominance, including direction, density, and similarity; achieving contrast through color, pattern, texture, scale, repetition, and shape; and rhythm, including repetition or alteration of elements, regular and irregular rhythms, organic rhythm, and progressive rhythm. The program features professors and students from Parsons School of Design and offers examples of design principles in such fields as architecture, fashion, interior design, theater, product design, and printed publications.


Read More at Insight Media

About the Author*

Features professor John Roach from Parson School of Design. 

Citations

Design: Understanding the Elements description taken from Insignt Media: ( http://www.insight-media-digital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-product.tpl&product_id=41&category_id=8&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=5&vmcchk=1&Itemid=5 )

Design: Understanding the Principles description taken from Insight Media: ( http://www.insight-media-digital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-product.tpl&product_id=35&category_id=8&keyword=Design%3A+Understanding+the&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=5 )