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Inside the Stunning ‘Shōgun’ Production Design: An Interview with Helen Jarvis
Production Designer Helen Jarvis sits down with us to discuss designing feudal Japan in Vancouver for FX’s Shōgun.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Design Quotes
Check out this collection of design quotes I have collected over the years from various design fields.
PROGRAMMER’S CHOICE: Great Art Direction at TIFF ’10
I asked 5 TIFF Programmers via Twitter to recommend their favourite films with the best art direction at the Toronto International Film Festival this year and to my delight, they answered! Art …
The Art of Reality Television
Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, Season 1 From the creators of Project Runway comes the newest reality competition on Bravo, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. I am in …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Ideas
Today’s Hump Day Quote Day theme is Ideas. You can check out the last theme, Waiting on Art, here. The next quote theme will be Design. Page from the book, It’s Not …
The Motion Picture Art Director
Take a look at these diagrams detailing the work of the motion picture art director from 1940 and 1994.
SPRING UPDATE: Hot Docs, Banksy, Anton Kuerti & Conan
Since I didn’t post much during the month of May I figured I’d let you in on what I have been up to outside the blog world. Hot Docs Despite the fact …
Universal Studios Backlot Reopens
On June 1, 2008 Universal Studios New York St. backlot burned to the ground. Two years later it has now been reopened (as of yesterday) with crews shooting there again starting July …
TV SETS: The Good Wife
I have fallen in love with the sets of ‘The Good Wife’ as many, many of you have. To read up about the beautiful sets by Production Designer Stephen Hendrickson and Set …
The Case of the Bad Production Designer
This 10 minute comedic short film played at the ADG (Art Directors Guild) Awards in February of this year and surfaced online in a shorter format that was widely circulated. I hadn’t …
How the Film Industry Works
The Updated version of the Movie Swing diagram The original Movie Swing drawing. This is from Little Joe’s studio in New Orleans. It is in bad shape, because it went through Hurricane …