At London’s Design Museum, Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition explores the iconic director’s roster of films through their design process, visualization of genre and vision for the future. Curator Deyan Sudjic and designer Marina Willer guide attendees through Kubrick’s storytelling, directing and editing by way of 500 objects—from costumes to props and production memos. Sudjic and Willer organize the exhibit into seven design sections—a first for …
In runner form, famed designer David Hicks’ orange and red hexagonal-patterned carpet accents the home of any Stanley Kubrick fan. Fortunately, however, it doesn’t overwhelm with the same shocking sensations one finds within Kubrick’s film The Shining, which features the pattern from wall to wall in The Overlook Hotel. It’s just the right amount of reference, without being too garish or kitsch. Further, this officially …
At age 17, Stanley Kubrick joined the staff of Look magazine as a photographer. Long before he’d make some of the most important films in cinematic history, he captured thousands of humanist imagery that captured New York City in the mid-1940s. Now, 300 of these images appear in Taschen’s “Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs” and they more than allude to the genius that …
