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

It doesn't seem a stretch to wonder if Wes Anderson makes films (especially The Grand Budapest Hotel) as an excuse to create exquisite fictitious letterhead, and when he wanted someone equally meticulous about such things, he found Annie Atkins, who worked with him on graphic prop design (did you know that was a job?) for Isle of Dogs too, as well as on Bridge of Spies, The Tudors, and Penny Dreadful. Atkins's yummy first book shares reproductions of her own work as well as the period ephemera—movie tickets, signage, hotel stationery—that inspire her. For certain kind of design- (and movie-) besotted person (such as me), this book of behind-the-scenes magic is candy, specifically the sort of candy you might be presented in a pink Mendl's box.