Tag: ADG

Set Designer Stephen Myles Berger to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at 2020 ADG Awards
Stephen Myles Berger, set designer and art director of Sunshine Boys and Basic Instinct, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 ADG Awards.

Scenic Artist Denis Olsen to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 ADG Awards
Scenic Artist Denis Olsen is set to receive the Art Directors Guild Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 ADG Awards.

Jaws Production Designer Joe Alves to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 ADG Awards
Oscar-nominated Production Designer Joe Alves, best known for his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws will receive the Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Annual “Excellence in Production Design” ADG Awards.

LINKS & STUFF: ADG Nominees, Arts Happiness and Title Design
Here are a few of our favourite links from this week. Feel free to peruse Art Departmental’s Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr or our brand new Google + Fan Page for more art department and film related goodies! Circle …

The Case of the Bad Production Designer
This 10 minute comedic short film played at the ADG (Art Directors Guild) Awards in February of this year and surfaced online in a shorter format that was widely circulated. I hadn’t …

How to Judge Best Art Direction
EDIT: The video discussed is no longer available so it has been replaced with a similar video. 05/15/17 Production Designer, Jim Bissell, explains with great insight what makes great production design and …