Hitchcock Loved Blondes

“I try to find a logic for whatever the set is and somehow I felt it was wrong for [Shell Cottage] to be too whimsical, too fanciful. So this cottage has a logic. If you really wanted to build a house on the beach, what would you do? Well, you would use local materials. And the local materials would be either rocks or seashells. The walls are huge oyster shells and the roof is made of big scallop shells. You can see how scallop shells can lend themselves to overlapping and shedding water. I was kind of pleased with the logic underlying the structure that we had found there.” -Production designer Stuart Craig on his approach to the set design for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

Head over to Architectural Digest to read more of Stuart’s insights into the designing of the film.

What If the HARRY POTTER Films Were Released As Part of the Criterion Collection?

They might look something like this. Unfortunately, the Harry Potter movies are not being released by the Criterion Collection anytime in the near future, but that didn’t stop designer Patrick Sullivan from dreaming up some Criterion-style artwork for them. 

Criterion is known for their excellent cover art, and I think that Sullivan really did them justice here, don’t you?

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Director David Yates’ Letter to Movie Theater Projectionists on How Best To Show HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2

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More Pieces from Gallery Nucleus’ Harry Potter Tribute Show.

As promised, here’s another look at some of the items from the currently-running Harry Potter Tribute Show at Gallery Nucleus.

To see more, visit Nucleus’ Harry Potter blog or visit their store to purchase prints. Click here for our previous look at the show.

Nucleus Gallery’s Harry Potter Tribute Art Show.

While Crazy 4 Cult is going on at Gallery 1988 right now, right down the road, Nucleus is doing their own art show, this one as a tribute to a property with a huge cult following of its own: Harry Potter.

What I love about a lot of the art featured in this show is that many of the pieces don’t seem to be directly inspired by the Harry Potter films, but rather by the artists’ interpretations of characters and events from the books. Many of these make me long for an illustrated edition of the series.

I did my best to narrow this down to ten pieces (Tumblr’s limit for photosets like this) but just couldn’t do it, so expect another post with even more pieces later on. In the meantime, feel free to wade through Nucleus’ Harry Potter blog to see more items, and visit their store where you can buy prints for a few of the pieces.