Fake love letters, forged telegrams, and prison escape maps. Designing graphic props for filmmaking

Although graphic props such as invitations, letters, tickets, menus, packaging, and street signage are rarely seen close-up by a cinema audience, they are designed in painstaking detail. In this book, Dublin-based designer annie atkins invites readers into the creative process behind the intricately designed, rigorously researched, and visually stunning graphic props created for vies anderson's the grand Budapest hotel and Isle of Dols, Steven Spielberg's bridge of spies and Todd Haynes's wonderstruck, among other films and television series.