Saw The Employees last year. So looking forward to catching the latest from Łukasz Twarkowski:

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/lukasz-twarkowski-dailes-theatre-anka-herbut-rohtko

‘Trailblazing director Łukasz Twarkowski fuses #theatre, #tech and live #cinema to create a monumentally spectacular production that explores #art and #authenticity in a fast-changing world.

One of the biggest scandals in the art world lies at the heart of this ground-breaking production. In 2004, a couple bought a painting by Mark Rothko for $8.3 million. Years later, it turns out to be not by Rothko himself, but by a Chinese maths teacher from Queens who also forged works by Jackson Pollock. Can a #fake painting evoke real feelings? What is real art and what is it worth?
With pumping techno beats, two huge #video screens and stunning #setdesign, the creators of ROHTKO search for answers, with philosopher Byung-Chul Han's book Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese on the value of real and fake.

DesignBoom : RULA unfolds seven-meter cube into living stage for terence lam’s concert in hong kong https://www.designboom.com/design/rula-seven-meter-cube-living-stage-terence-lam-concert-hong-kong-ruby-law-09-10-2025/ #setdesign #readers #design

Heh. It's not an esker, but it pretty much looks like my home turf. Yes, we get moss this thick here (locally). I'm not sure where they filmed this, but parts of northern China has nature that could fit right into an Old Man Pettson book, and I have to admit it's a nice change to that one bamboo forest at Heng Dian.

So, demons have excellent taste in style*, but no sense for furnishing? Almost everything here feels randomly placed. The table is askew in a sea of empty floor, there's an altar(?) not against the wall - against two flimsy curtains, and why is there an ankle height brazier straddling the most logical pathway past the table? There's more logic to other sets, but I'm suspecting uncritical use of AI here.

(*all in and more, More, _More!_ of it)

https://www.europesays.com/2015739/ AHA objects reinterprets the chairs’ by eugène ionesco #ArchitectureInMalta #ChairDesign #malta #SetDesign #theaters

However you feel about the plot twists in Severance Season 2, you can’t knock the art direction. From M. Hulot to “Sorry to Bother You,” The Times explores the cinematic sources of the innies’ discontent.

Gift article, no paywall. #film #SetDesign #Severance #cubicles #OfficeCulture

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/arts/television/severance-office-life-film-tricks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k4.hEN-.fTN2VuYEgteP&smid=url-share

Andy and Beau dive back deep into the dystopian world of Charge - rediscover Einar's hut, explained.
#b3d #BlenderStudio #OpenMovie #Charge #setdesign

https://studio.blender.org/blog/set-design-the-evolution-of-einars-hut/

For being a mid-1970s TV movie, the sets are often surprisingly expansive and impressive in the original 1980 Shogun (which I've been watching over the holidays for the first time since it was originally on the air when I was a kid).

#Shogun #1980 #TV #miniseries #SetDesign

Babylon 5 set designer/background art painter, I salute your solution to creating on a tight deadline #babylon5 #setdesign

I don't think I've ever seen a C-drama without a library*, but this is the one of the most magnificent one so far! I'd totally build a secret room in one of those book towers, live on things I stole from the kitchen, and...

*cough*

I mean, A+ to the set designer! This one looks great!

(*save for possibly that one with the toilet and the bear)

On ST:TNG and many other scifi shows of the 80s/90s freezer spacers like this were frequently used as grates, mechanical texturing elements, or (as in this example) with light behind.

I've managed to put together a passable CAD model of this iconic bit of plastic. Download free in various formats (including an 1:12 scale STL file): https://mangledpixel.com/freezer_spacer.html

For more on the use of freezer spacers in Trek set design, see: https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/reused_freezer_spacers.htm

Is... is it intentional that the decorations on the table looks like Su Wuming's moustache?

Download the production files and learn more about the set design of Project Gold on http://studio.blender.org #b3d #openmovie #setdesign

YOU GUYS the scenic artist at my theater painted a little drain on the set floor, and it is the cutest thing that an audience may never notice. But we shall love it just the same.

(The play, "Clyde's" by Lynn Nottage, is set in a restaurant kitchen.)

I've always been a bit obsessed with Mary Richard's Minneapolis Apartment on #TheMaryTylerMooreShow I bought some pocket vases on Ebay, and Hubs just finished this to hang on our wall. It comes very close to the one on Mary's apartment wall. #ClassicTV #1970s #Retro #SetDesign

"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," French filmmaker Jacques Demy's classic musical drama, is 60 years old this month. Demy once said of it: "I wanted to make people cry — to think of their first love." Meg Walters says it's the movie's interior spaces that she loves: The wallpapers, frilly umbrellas, dinky antique wooden furniture and color clashes. She writes for Dwell about the film's set design, which influenced recent blockbusters like "La La Land" and "Barbie."

https://flip.it/.CsacR

#Movies #Cinema #Design #Art #SetDesign #Film

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