Annie Atkins

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Building worlds in motion pictures through graphic props and typography—Annie Atkins joins to discuss her career designing set pieces for films such as The Grand Budapest Hotel and her new book, “Letters from the North Pole.”

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	What happened was,
0:09.0	people started selling bootleg versions of it,
0:12.0	it's like their own knockoffs. But of course at that point they didn't know about the spelling mistake.
0:20.0	From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.
0:25.0	For 19 years, Debbie Milmont has been talking with designers and other creative people
0:32.0	about what they do, how they get to be who they are,
0:35.0	and what they're thinking about and working on.
0:37.8	On this episode, Annie Atkins talks about working as a graphic designer on Wes Anderson
0:42.4	Films and about that
0:43.7	the graphic designer on Wes Anderson films and about that coveted Kate box.
0:45.7	The real boxes, they've all got the spelling mistake on them.
0:48.1	So if you see that for sale on eBay, then you should buy that one.
0:54.0	We generally don't think about graphic design
0:57.0	when we think about film and television.
0:59.0	Yes, there are the opening credits which are often elaborately designed and produced.
1:04.9	I'm talking here about the variety of things we see in scenes, the props,
1:10.8	especially in historical dramas.
1:13.7	Need an American passport, say, from 1949 for your movie?
1:18.7	Need a pastry box with some lovely period branding on it, need a telegram saying the Titanic is on the way.
1:27.8	What you need is graphic designer Annie Atkins.
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