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Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps

Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking

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Publisher's Synopsis

A behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary and meticulous design of graphic objects for film sets

Although graphic props such as invitations, letters, tickets, and packaging are rarely seen close-up by a cinema audience, they are designed in painstaking detail. Dublin-based designer Annie Atkins invites readers into the creative process behind her intricately designed, rigorously researched, and visually stunning graphic props. These objects may be given just a fleeting moment of screen time, but their authenticity is vital and their role is crucial: to nudge both the actors on set and the audience just that much further into the fictional world of the film.

About the Publisher

Phaidon Press Limited

Phaidon is the world's premier publisher of books on the visual arts. We believe passionately in the creative act and aim to make it exciting and understandable by all and to celebrate its greatness in everything we produce. We have published books with some of the most creative artists, architects, designers, photographers and chefs of the 20th and 21st centuries. We work collaboratively with the creative arts world's most inspiring names to achieve the most faithful representation of, and the truest insight into, the way those artists and visionaries interact with the world around them - whatever medium they work in.

Book information

ISBN: 9780714879383
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Imprint: Phaidon Press Limited
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.43025
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 206
Weight: 796g
Height: 194mm
Width: 256mm
Spine width: 20mm