ByDesign10

ByDesign10

MARCH 5-11, 2010

Presented by Northwest Film Forum and AIGA-Seattle
Sponsored by CapitolHillSeattle.com

ByDesign explores the intersection of graphic design and moving image, and celebrates multidisciplinary artists who push the boundaries to create new techniques, styles and forms. Over the past decade, we’ve had the pleasure of hosting a great number of special guest artists, and presenting hundreds of new and historic films. We’ve seen new technologies developed, old techniques revived and watched as interest has grown in this overlap of design and film.

The tenth annual ByDesign program features a range of film title sequences, animations, documentary portraits and guest presenters. We are especially pleased to present films by Charles and Ray Eames, as the work of the legendary multi-disciplinary husband and wife team was the main inspiration for our starting this program a decade ago.

Curator: Peter Lucas

Program Assistant: Katherine Jardine

 

 

Opening Night Party

Free!

Mar 05, 2010

Join us in celebrating the opening of the 10th annual ByDesign fest with drinks, short films and live audio/visual performances by Iller Aint, Scientific American and Wyndel Hunt.

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Danny Yount

Mar 05, 2010

Self-taught designer Danny Yount has become one of today's top title designers for film and television, as well as a photographer and commercial director. Yount will be here to show his work, discuss his creative and technical processes and field questions. 

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Seattle Moves: Screening and Panel Discussion

Mar 06, 2010

Seattle animators and motion designers will screen recent projects and discuss their inspirations, creative processes and the behind-the-scenes techniques in creating recent main titles, commercials and short films.

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The Light Surgeons

Mar 06, 2010

Since 1995, UK based art collective The Light Surgeons has been developing it's own unique style of creative media “surgery” and pioneering a new form of audiovisual narrative. This retrospective program spans the past decade, from earlier collage films to their latest documentary short, Schlemazeltov. Founder Chris Allen scheduled to attend.

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Curator Talk: Classic Film Titles

Mar 07, 2010

ByDesign Curator Peter Lucas presents an informal primer on the history of film title sequences. He’ll screen over a dozen classic title sequences created in the 1950s and 60s by such masters as Saul Bass, Maurice Binder, Robert Brownjohn, Pablo Ferro and others.

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Eames Design

Mar 07 - Mar 09, 2010

(Charles and Ray Eames, USA, 1954–72, Beta-SP, 65 min)

The husband and wife team Charles and Ray Eames are among the most influential designers of the 20th century. This selection of their films playfully documents their Herman Miller furniture, their private home and even a solar powered kinetic sculpture. 

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Eames Communication

Mar 07 - Mar 09, 2010

(Charles and Ray Eames, USA, 1953-72, Beta-SP, 65 min)

This selection of short films by influential designers/filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames focuses on their exploration of concepts of communication, science and new technologies.

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Hillman Curtis Artist Series

Mar 08 - Mar 10, 2010

Designer and filmmaker David Hillman Curtis directs this series of beautifully shot short film portraits of notable artists and graphic designers. Together the films present an inspiring tapestry of images, wisdom and the questions asked by all those who create.  

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"Fragments of Atlantida" by Olga Mink and Scanner

Entropy: New Shorts & Music Videos

Mar 08 - Mar 10, 2010

Creatures, cutouts and colors illuminate the screen in this year’s survey of inventive new short films and music videos from around the globe. Features music by Yeasayer, Grizzly Bear, Ramona Falls, N.A.S.A. and others. 

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Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized

Mar 11, 2010

(Peter Sluszka, Julia Pott, Guilherme Marcondes, Santa Maria; USA, 2009, 99 min)

After the release of The Decemberists’ The Hazards of Love last year, four filmmakers embarked on a special project to take the album to new heights. Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria created animated films to accompany the ambitious and acclaimed song cycle.

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