Interior Design Project:
An interview and behind the scenes footage with Brandi
Hagen. The award-winning designer gives the audience insight into the process, pitfalls and professional touches involved in designing
an amazing master bathroom. From studio to showroom to final tour, Brandi’s focus is on client service.
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Interior Design Project:
Do you know the names of the styles you love? When you
see a room that delights you, is it the strong lines of Mission style or the warm colors of Southwest? Award-winning designer Brandi
Hagen takes you on a tour of the furnishings and finishes of eleven different styles: Includes Traditional, Victorian, Mission, Art Deco/Nouveau, Retro, African, Asian,
Southwestern, Shabby Chic, County and Contemporary.
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Interior Design Project:
Designing homes with environmental consciousness, or “green design”,
can be beautiful and practical, as well as a meaningful personal choice. Award-winning designer Brandi Hagen demonstrates how ecological choices
can be gorgeous. She showcases natural flooring options, unique recycled and organic materials, water-saving plumbing designs, safer paints,
and energy-efficient lighting and appliance choices. 2009 ed. 21 min.
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Jobs in Housing and
Many professionals work together to create a house, long before it becomes a
home. Explore the careers of an architect, general contractor, interior designer, and other related professionals. Learn how their combined knowledge turns the idea of a house into a reality. See what each job entails, planning, meeting clients, solving problems and completing a project. Also covers required education, experience, and necessary business acumen. 2010 ed. 29 min.
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Green Architecture: Environmentally Friendly Housing – FH 1186
Combining aesthetics, sustainability, and function is the
challenge of green architecture. Twenty teams of college students brilliantly rise to that challenge as they compete to design, build,
and demonstrate the operation of the most attractive and energy-efficient house at the 2007 Solar Decathlon. This program tracks three
of the teams as they seek out corporate sponsors, research available materials, and hone their construction skills to create appealing
living spaces that require zero energy. 2008 ed. 31 min.
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Understanding Fabrics –
Viewers tour a modern textile mill and watch raw acrylic become fabric,
see yarn spun by spinning wheel and by modern technology, see fabric created by both hand looms and
computerized machines. Students learn about weaving and how looms turn yarn into fabric; how weave variations determine fabric quality;
& the difference between woven & knitted fabric. 2008 ed. 24 min.
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Interior Lighting – LS 1050
Good lighting can bring a room to life! With the power to
influence emotion, lighting is part psychology as well as technology. Learn in the importance of light direction & how it can add depth & dimension. Special topics
include “bounced” lighting, ambient, task, & accent lighting; incandescent, LED, & compact fluorescent lamps; lighting
fixtures, wall washers, pendants, recessed, eyeballs, track, torchieres, spots, floods & table lamps. Viewers see why furniture and fabrics
often appear different in house lighting than they did in the store environment. 2008 ed. 24 min. DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$120
Confessions of an Interior
Designer Brandi Hagen shows students exactly what it takes
to be a professional interior designer. She discusses required education, how to gain experience and the pros and cons of a career as
a professional designer. Viewers see her studio, sit in on a client meeting and tour several designer showrooms.
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Visual Design Basics –
Teaches the fundamentals of visual design in seven sections: lines,
shapes, angles, and curves, rhythm, proportion and scale, balance, groups, and colors. Learn that
horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines each send differing emotional messages. What does a square mean? What is the message of a rectangle? Does
a square room “feel” different than a rectangular room? What are the “feeling” differences between an angle and a curve? Viewers know they like rhythm in music,
but what about visual rhythm? See how proportion, balance, and scale are part of any visual design from public monuments to dining rooms.
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Housing Styles – LZ 998
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The American House – NAS 1190
Redecorate, refurbish, rebuild. Shows popular architectural
styles and explains why they remain popular today. Visual clues to help viewers identify styles include Tudor, Neo-Classical,
Victorian, Prairie, and Colonial Revival (No preview). 2006 ed. 14 min.
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Careers in Interior Design –
Would you like to work with luxurious fabrics, rich colors and interesting
furniture to create fabulous spaces? Well, you can if you become an interior designer. Get a glimpse at this career from interior designers who have successful careers in
residential and commercial design, “green” design, lighting design, sales, interior design education and design animation.
2005 ed. 17 min
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Introduction to Interior
The word “environment” usually sparks images of rain forests
and endangered species, but our interior environment is a complex place requiring careful attention, planning, and design. Interior design is becoming
an art and science. Guides students through the history of interior design from the world of kings and queens to our society of
corporate buildings, design firms, and title and practice acts regulating designers. The phases and basics of interior design are
discussed by design professionals, as well as the importance of the client relationship.
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Design I: The Elements – LZ 965A
Anytime you create something, a sketch or a skyscraper, you are designing. Explore the ELEMENTS
of design – color, line, shape, form, patters and texture – in the usual design disciplines: interior, clothing, landscape, and architecture, as well as more unusual
venues.
2006 ed. 23 min.
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Eye for Design – LS 961
Goes beyond mere “decorating” or “picking a wardrobe”
and into the basics of perception, beauty, and the ecology of environments. Learn how to create visual rhythm, use patterns and repeating
motifs in a design, create designs that provide focal points, the message of angles and curves and how to balance the two, how basic
shapes (squares, circles, triangles) send differing emotional messages, how to achieve visual balance and the importance of scale, proportion,
and the Golden Mean.
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Styles of American
Over fifty beautiful examples of American furniture in full
color so you can teach the origins of styles. Each digital slide is carefully annotated and explained in detail. Teaches the
vocabulary of styles and design to help understand the rich, living history of American furniture: Federal, Windsor, Chippendale, Queen Anne,
Victorian, Neo-Classical, and Modern. Teaches terms such as cabriole leg, highboy and lowboy, cornice, pediment, escutcheon, classical
motifs, finials, splat, tray top, rococo, camelback and inlay. 2009 ed.
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Housing Styles & Trends
A pictorial review of American housing styles such as Tudor,
Colonial, Victorian & Prairie. Many photos of styles with detailed illustrations of the characteristics of each style. Instructional
package includes lecture handouts, activities, quiz, and Web resources.
37 SLIDES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$60