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Set Design

  1. backstories
    Assembling OkernReservation Dogs’ art department designed its fictional hometown to mirror the memories of its most important audience: the series’ cast and crew.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  2. think pink
    Wait, Did Barbie Actually Cause an International Pink-Paint Shortage?It depends on who you’re asking.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  3. incentives
    The Stories Behind Severance’s Eerie Office DesignMid-century furniture, out-of-time desktop computers, and childish “incentives” build the series’s office as haunted playground aesthetic.
    By Jackson McHenry
  4. set design
    How Inventing Anna Built Some Very Real-Seeming Fake New York Magazine OfficesWelcome to Manhattan magazine.
    By Jackson McHenry
  5. in the heights
    In the Heights Made Its New York City Sets ‘a Great Playground’The movie’s production designer and set decorator tell Vulture about translating the hit musical and all its intricacies to the big screen.
    By Chris Stanton
  6. emmy insider
    Couples Therapy Built the World’s Most Convincing Reality-TV SetHow the Showtime docuseries filmed inside a fake therapy office without participants ever seeing any cameras.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  7. set design
    Bodies, Entrails, and Blood: Behind Gary’s Gruesome (Yet Funny) Scenic DesignHow do you make a pile of dead bodies seem funny?
    By Jackson McHenry
  8. set design
    How Fosse/Verdon Rebuilt the Sets of the Show’s Key Movies and MusicalsProduction designer Alex DiGerlando walks us through the series’ film and stage re-creations, from Sweet Charity to All That Jazz.
    By Jackson McHenry
  9. set design
    Westworld Sets Destroyed by California WildfiresFirst the Bachelor mansion, now this.
    By Devon Ivie
  10. behind the scenes
    How Better Call Saul Rebuilt the Meth Superlab From Breaking BadThe “daunting” project took a team of 75 set designers, artists, and carpenters, plus advice from a structural engineer.
    By Maria Elena Fernandez
  11. set design
    How Kidding Invented Its Very Own Children’s Puppet ShowStep one: Hire an Emmy-winning Sesame Street veteran.
    By Maria Elena Fernandez
  12. backstories
    How Sharp Objects Made Amma’s Creepy DollhouseThe show spent “six figures” building its crucial, labor-intensive prop.
    By Maria Elena Fernandez
  13. Spike Lee Explains Nola Darling’s Amazing Bed in She’s Gotta Have It“It couldn’t have been an ordinary bed. It would not have had the same impact.”
    By Hunter Harris
  14. how they did it
    How Stranger Things Made the Sprawling Tunnel Maps in Will’s House“It was a nightmare, I’m not going to lie.”
    By E. Alex Jung
  15. set design
    Was That David Hyde Pierce’s Real House in the Wet Hot American Summer Sequel?Vulture investigates.
    By Jesse David Fox
  16. Watch the 3 Color Tricks That Defined La La Land’s Dreamy Los AngelesMia’s yellow dress is a pretty important plot device.
    By Jared T. Miller and Lizzy Halberstadt
  17. punkmageddon
    How Mad Max Revolutionized What the Future Looked Like in FilmThe day the apocalypse went punk.
    By Chris Wade
  18. behind the scenes
    Photos: We Visited Saturday Night Live’s Set-Building FactoryBehind the scenes with the rapid-fire builders.
    By Mike Ryan
  19. carcosa
    People Had Many Game of Thrones/Carcosa JokesThe three-eyed raven is the Yellow King.
    By Gilbert Cruz