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284- Hero Props: Graphic Design in Film & Television

Episode Summary

Annie Atkins specializes in graphics for filmmaking, including lettering, illustrations and more -- she has designed all kinds of graphic props, including telegrams, vintage cigarette packaging, maps, love letters, books, passports and fake CIA identification cards.

Episode Notes

When a new movie comes out, most of the praise goes to the director and the lead actors, but there are so many other people involved in a film, and a lot of them are designers. There are costume designers and set designers, but also graphic designers working behind the scenes on every single graphic object that you might need in a film. It’s Annie Atkins’s job to design them.

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