Category: Design Talks

Dr.Strangelove War Room - Perspectives on Production Design
Dr. Strangelove (1964)

DESIGN TALKS: Perspectives on Production Design with Sir Christopher Frayling

Watch this video that lays out essential perspectives on production design theory in this keynote address by professor Sir Christopher Frayling.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Production Designer Rick Carter

DESIGN TALKS: 5 Things I Learned from ‘Star Wars’ Production Designer Rick Carter

Check out this talk with production designer Rick Carter as he discusses the craft of production design amongst his colleagues at the Art Directors Guild in Los Angeles. Rick Carter has designed such films as Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her and the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Production designer John Janavs discusses reality television production design / reality show production design

The Art of Reality Show Production Design with Production Designer John Janavs

This year, Orange County’s Saddleback College invited guest speaker Production Designer John Janavs, to speak about the art of reality television production design to a group of students. They were kind enough

DESIGN TALKS: ADG Production Design Panel at Comic Con in 2008

Over the weekend while updating Art Departmental’s Youtube Channel I decided to watch these videos below. I’ve seen them around for a while but because of their poor titling I wasn’t sure

DESIGN TALKS: Ralph Eggleston

STORYTELLING IS KEY I stumbled upon these videos of this seminar with Ralph Eggleston, Production Designer and Art Director at Pixar. They are from the Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2009 in Norway which

DESIGN TALKS: Barbara Hulanicki

  I am fascinated by Barbara Hulanicki. At this years Interior Design Show in Toronto, Barbara Hulanicki came to speak about her immense career and her attitudes towards design. Ever since I have been