Graphic Design

Information-packed video that shows how to use the "six tips plan" to graphic design. Friends help Kelsey with a design dilemma as she creates a poster for a charity drive. With the help of their school Art/Business teacher, they develop a poster that "works" -- it includes all important information and catches the attention of other students. Covers the following marketing tools:• A picture says a thousand words.• Divide and conquer.• Answer the 5 Ws.• Use the "Z" format. • Reverse the font & catch the eye.• Forget the feet.
2005, Learning Zone Express.11 minutes

Creating a successful print ad involves a dynamic mix of visual theory, consumer psychology, and nuts-and-bolts tinkering. This two-part series provides a thorough grounding in all of the above, familiarizing students with the terminology and working concepts that successful graphic designers and advertising creatives make use of on a daily basis. Although both episodes are rich in detailed guidance, their class-friendly run times make them ideal for coursework in marketing, advertising, design, and commercial art.
2011, D E VISUALS. 2-part series, 19 minutes each.

Featuring a professor and students from the Parsons School of Design, this program examines the elements of design. It discusses line; shape, including two- and three-dimensional, geometric, and organic; visual and tactile textures; size; and such color principles as value, hue, complimentary, analogous, triadic, additive and subtractive colors, and primary colors.
2007. Produced by James Strzelinski, In Design. 18 minutes.

This program looks at ways in which designers collect and organize information using digital technology and how these methods are helping to evolve new forms and strategies in the design world.
2009, ClickView Pty Limited. 27 minutes.

This four-part series takes students through the crucial stages of the design process. Each program follows a fascinating project at a cutting-edge company from start to finish, illustrating how design teams work together to analyze a project, plan and create a product, and evaluate the prototype.
2002, Digital Rights Group Limited. 4-part series, 15 minutes each.

This series celebrates innovations in industrial, urban and graphic design and the ingenious renegades that create them.
2016, Canadian Broadcast Corp. 4 videos, 21 minutes each.

Learn to edit your images using the powerful, yet easy-to-learn, Adobe Photoshop Elements, the “younger sibling” of the professional program. This instructional video will teach you how to enhance, retouch, and edit your images using Adobe Photoshop Elements.
In this easy to digest video, you can immediately put your new photo editing skills to use. This video will touch on the essential basics to get beginners off the ground, starting with learning the work space, and moving onto retouching, exposure correction, and more.
2020, Springer Nature. 1 hour 11 minutes.

David Carson shows images of his desktop, notes for his TED talk, an ad he saw while flying, and a generic sign for Hitler's ad campaign. He discusses the importance of people in design and the courage it takes to be a graphic designer.
2009, TED. 3 minutes.

Looking at the latest techniques and marketing strategies in Europe and America, including the use of social media and augmented reality, this series shows how luxury brands are often ‘refreshed’ to attract new generations of customers across the globe. It also reveals the secret marketing tactics of some of the world’s most successful brands, while leading business entrepreneurs, advertising, and marketing gurus share insights into the dos and don'ts of brand development.
2014. A BBC Production. 8 part series, 50 minutes each.

Branding is the profound manifestation of the human spirit, says designer and podcaster Debbie Millman. In a historical odyssey that she illustrated herself, Millman traces the evolution of branding, from cave paintings to flags to beer labels and beyond. She explores the power of symbols to unite people, beginning with prehistoric communities who used them to represent beliefs and identify affiliations to modern companies that adopt logos and trademarks to market their products -- and explains how branding reflects the state of humanity.
2020, TED. 14 minutes.

When humanity first landed on the moon in 1969, the typeface Futura was right there with them. In this fascinating history of typography, designer Douglas Thomas shares Futura's role in launching the Apollo 11 spacecraft -- and how it became one of the most used fonts in the world.
2019, TED. 14 minutes.