Category: Design Talks

Forrest Gump Production Designer Rick Carter

Forrest Gump Production Designer Rick Carter Breaks Down Famous Lt. Dan Scene | Design Talks

Forrest Gump Production Designer Rick Carter breaks down Forrest, Bubba, and the audience’s introduction to Lieutenant Dan for the first time.

Production designers Nathan Crowley, John Myhre, Fiona Crombie, and Eugenio Caballero at the 2019 BAFTA Production Design Panel

The 2019 BAFTA Production Design Panel Featuring BAFTA Nominees | Design Talks

Watch the BAFTA-nominated Production Designers participate in this BAFTA production design panel discussing their work on the nominated films: Roma, Mary Poppins Returns, The Favourite, and First Man.

Set Decorators Discuss Set Decoration

Set Decorators George DeTitta, Regina Graves, and David Schlesinger Discuss Set Decoration

In this video, Set Decorators George DeTitta, (Birdman), Regina Graves, (The Knick), and David Schlesinger, (Annie), discuss their creative process.

Black Panther Production Designer Hannah Beachler
Black Panther Production Designer Hannah Beachler | Photo by Chris Britt

DESIGN TALKS: Black Panther Production Designer Hannah Beachler on Inclusive Design

Watch this recent design talk with Black Panther production designer Hannah Beachler and host John Maeda as they discuss the need for inclusion in design and how that affects storytelling.

BAFTA Production Design Panel

DESIGN TALKS: The 2018 BAFTA Production Design Panel Featuring the BAFTA Nominees

Watch the BAFTA-nominated Production Designers participate in this BAFTA production design panel discussing their work on the nominated films: The Shape of Water, Dunkirk, Blade Runner 2049, Darkest Hour, and Beauty and the Beast.

Oscars Production Design Panel

The 2018 ADG Oscars Production Design Panel

The Oscar-nominated Production Designers and Set Decorators from Beauty and the Beast, Blade Runner 2049, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk and The Shape of Water discussed their craft today at the 12th Annual Art of Production

Production Designer Claude Paré

DESIGN TALKS: 5 Things I Learned from ‘IT’ Production Designer Claude Paré

The Directors Guild of Canada brought Claude Paré, production designer of ‘Night at the Museum’, ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, and ‘IT’ to discuss his vast and varied career with an audience of DGC Ontario members. Here’s what I learned.

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