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Pixar-Neering: An Interview With the Minds Behind The Magic

What happens when you cross Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering? Answer: the Theme Parks Department at Pixar, headed by Liz Gazzano and Roger Gould. While small, this department ...

An Interview With The Industry’s Shape-Shifters: Thinkwell Group

Unlike most creative companies, Thinkwell does not want to stand out. Producers in imaginative industries –authors, film directors, or architects for instance – typically hope to be recognized for their ...

American Iconic: An Interview With The Hettema Group

If the entertainment design industry was a high school, The Hettema Group would be the school sweethearts: they’re overachievers, good listeners, well-liked, and friends with everyone. They’re also the self-proclaimed ...

The Real Magic Makers

It’s one thing to come up with a fantastical, creative theme park concept, but quite another to actually build it. If you’ve ever wondered how theme park concepts turn into ...

The Truth About Kids (How To Design Kids’ Spaces)

When it comes to designing children’s spaces, adults tend to make a lot of assumptions about kids – namely, that they like bright colors, plastic, and lots of stimulation. But ...

The Adventure Designer: An Interview with 5 Wits’ Matthew DuPlessie

Why pass by an adventure on a ride vehicle when you can actually be part of the story, solving puzzles and navigating your way through immersive sets? That’s exactly what ...

The Top 10 Most Innovative Entertainment Design Projects of 2012

2012 was an exciting year in entertainment design - from new museums transforming the way we teach math and science to the reimagining of classic theme park rides. With so ...

The Accidental Theme Park Designer: An Interview with Adrian Gorton

For most people, becoming a theme park designer and Hollywood film set maker is a dream, not an accidental tangent. But for Adrian Gorton, that’s exactly what it was. After ...

An Inside Look at Merlin Magic Making

While most of us have heard of major theme parks and attractions like LEGOLAND, Alton Towers, Madame Tussauds, or the London Eye, fewer are aware that the same core group ...

The 10 Best Booths at IAAPA 2012

Tired of going to stiff, corporate conferences where nobody smiles or has any fun? Check out the IAAPA Expo (short for the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions), which ...

A Chat with Chimera Design

What happens when an architect-turned-businessman and a filmmaker-turned-designer join forces? Figments of the imagination become tangible places.EntertainmentDesigner.com recently interviewed the two principal forces behind Chimera Design, which has helped develop ...

An Interview with Second Story

Most entertainment design companies have at least three things in common: storytelling, design, and technology. While these pillars certainly exist at Second Story, there is little else that makes this ...

From EPCOT to ASCOT

When Imagineers retire from Disney, where do they go? We can certainly tell you where all the Imagineering memorabilia goes: into John Drury’s backpack! Meeting with John was like getting ...

Words of Wisdom from the Play Expert

When I drove up to the headquarters of the National Institute for Play, it seemed entirely fitting to me that there should be a treehouse and swinging rope adjacent to ...