Film Design by Peter von Arx [Design Education at the AGS Basel, Graduate School of Design]

Film Design: Explaining, Designing with and Applying the Elementary Phenomena and Dimensions of Film in Design Education at the AGS Basel, Graduate School of Design by Peter von Arx, 1983. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, USA. 9.25 x 12, pp. 291 with German and English text. Beautifully printed in Switzerland and designed by Peter von Arx, Basel.

With a Foreword by German film director Birgit Hein and Armin Hofmann. In three sections each with introductory texts and richly illustrated with full page black and white and color examples with explanatory descriptions and captions for each.

The first section explains the elementary phenomena and dimensions of film according to the school program's analytical studies (image blending, time, animation, speed, camera, historical origins ...).

The second section is devoted to didactic methodological aspects, explaining how one designs within the film program (varying, combining, transferral to other techniques and objects, scores, implementation).

The third section shows how film is applied to graphic problems or further advanced into structural film experiments (texts and titles, symbols, graphic design, series, concepts and experiments).

A nearly fine hardcover with light marks to the black covers and small chips to the cover corners. With bright, tight and clean interior pages.