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Displaying all articles tagged:
Set Design
backstories
Sept. 28, 2023
Assembling Okern
Reservation Dogs
’ art department designed its fictional hometown to mirror the memories of its most important audience: the series’ cast and crew.
By
Roxana Hadadi
think pink
June 4, 2023
Wait, Did
Barbie
Actually Cause an International Pink-Paint Shortage?
It depends on who you’re asking.
By
Jennifer Zhan
incentives
Apr. 1, 2022
The Stories Behind
Severance
’s Eerie Office Design
Mid-century furniture, out-of-time desktop computers, and childish “incentives” build the series’s office as haunted playground aesthetic.
By
Jackson McHenry
set design
Feb. 11, 2022
How
Inventing Anna
Built Some Very Real-Seeming Fake
New York
Magazine Offices
Welcome to
Manhattan
magazine.
By
Jackson McHenry
in the heights
June 14, 2021
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
emmy insider
July 8, 2020
Couples Therapy
Built the World’s Most Convincing Reality-TV Set
How the Showtime docuseries filmed inside a fake therapy office without participants ever seeing any cameras.
By
Kathryn VanArendonk
set design
May 21, 2019
Bodies, Entrails, and Blood: Behind
Gary
’s Gruesome (Yet Funny) Scenic Design
How do you make a pile of dead bodies seem funny?
By
Jackson McHenry
set design
Apr. 16, 2019
How
Fosse/Verdon
Rebuilt the Sets of the Show’s Key Movies and Musicals
Production designer Alex DiGerlando walks us through the series’ film and stage re-creations, from
Sweet Charity
to
All That Jazz
.
By
Jackson McHenry
set design
Nov. 10, 2018
Westworld
Sets Destroyed by California Wildfires
First the
Bachelor
mansion, now this.
By
Devon Ivie
behind the scenes
Oct. 8, 2018
How
Better Call Saul
Rebuilt the Meth Superlab From
Breaking Bad
The “daunting” project took a team of 75 set designers, artists, and carpenters, plus advice from a structural engineer.
By
Maria Elena Fernandez
set design
Sept. 14, 2018
How
Kidding
Invented Its Very Own Children’s Puppet Show
Step one: Hire an Emmy-winning
Sesame Street
veteran.
By
Maria Elena Fernandez
backstories
Aug. 26, 2018
How
Sharp Objects
Made Amma’s Creepy Dollhouse
The show spent “six figures” building its crucial, labor-intensive prop.
By
Maria Elena Fernandez
Dec. 12, 2017
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
how they did it
Nov. 16, 2017
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
set design
Aug. 10, 2017
Was That David Hyde Pierce’s Real House in the
Wet Hot American Summer
Sequel?
Vulture investigates.
By
Jesse David Fox
Feb. 26, 2017
Watch the 3 Color Tricks That Defined
La La Land
’s
Dreamy Los Angeles
Mia’s yellow dress is a pretty important plot device.
By
Jared T. Miller
and
Lizzy Halberstadt
punkmageddon
May 14, 2015
How
Mad Max
Revolutionized What the Future Looked Like in Film
The day the apocalypse went punk.
By
Chris Wade
behind the scenes
Jan. 30, 2015
Photos: We Visited
Saturday Night Live
’s Set-Building Factory
Behind the scenes with the rapid-fire builders.
By
Mike Ryan
carcosa
June 16, 2014
People Had Many
Game of Thrones
/Carcosa Jokes
The three-eyed raven is the Yellow King.
By
Gilbert Cruz