If you’ve seen “Footloose,” did you get a sense for the claustrophobic small-town feel while watching? Or get a taste of the surreal with the spinning hallway in “Inception”? Or wondered about the ...

Ahead of the first-ever International Production Design Week, the Production Designers Collective has coordinated a series of interviews with directors and production designers, in which they discuss ...

If you’re looking for a meaning behind the title of Guillermo del Toro’s dark drama, search no further than the narrow, lacquered office of psychiatrist Dr. Lilith Ritter (Cate Blanchett). It was ...

How to work out a prototyping strategy that eases the transition to mass production. The advantages of using data from devices in the field to improve designs over time. How to make products more ...

Production designer Felicity Abbott is behind the great staging of The Luminaries, a mini-series that takes place in New Zealand during the 1860s West Coast Gold Rush. In the below interview, she ...

The tools of an architect and a production designer aren’t too different, according to John Chichester, director of production design at Chapman University in California. “Our motives are entirely ...