Rick Carter used the "invisible art" of production design to bring his longtime collaborator Steven Spielberg's childhood to life in…
Production designer Stefan Dechant has worked on films including The Call of the Wild, Kong: Skull Island and Jarhead —…
A tragic incident on a Sante Fe film set involving a prop gun and star Alec Baldwin; A look inside…
When designing The French Dispatch, production designer Adam Stockhausen and writer-director Wes Anderson pulled references from a host of different…
Dune production designer Patrice Vermette is known for his collaborations with fellow Canadian director Denis Villeneuve which includes Enemy, Prisoners,…
For the second consecutive year, a Netflix film was the most nominated at the Oscars. But this year, the film…
(Editor's Note: In the feature below, Joker production designer Mark Friedberg goes over his process of transforming New York City…
Production design is not about building a real place. It’s about designing and building an idea, a unique point of…
What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film's cast and crew? Or…
How do you shoot a realistic-looking 1940s-period film noir on a low budget? Back in the fall of 2010, we…
“Limitations should be viewed with an eye for opportunity.” I was taught that early in my career. Of course, it…
Director Bryan Campbell and production designer Kristen Bonnalie, of the Tribeca-premiering short "Big Boy," explain how they created the most…
The young Taymor started her career on the Awaji Island, Japan, studying pre-Bunraku puppetry to learn more about experimental theater.…
Every month, Interiors Journal dissects the floorplan of a film set to investigate the relationship between space and action. This…
Mark Friedberg has a knack for creating worlds. As a production designer, it is his responsibility to imagine and create…