Edited with introduction and text by Maria McLintock. Text by Hadeel Eltayeb, Hilary Davidson, Iain Borden, Imogen West-Knights, Jenny He, Charlie Fox, Ryan White, Tim Burton. Conversations with Hadeel Eltayeb, Ian MacKinnon, Pete Saunders, Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, Colleen Atwood.
An expansive exploration of the role of design and creative practice in director Tim Burton’s unique approach to building worlds
This book is the official catalog for the exhibition at the Design Museum, as well as the first publication to explore the relationship between Tim Burton’s artistic creations and the world of design. The reader is invited into an examination of what is now broadly referred to as the “Burtonesque,” exploring his iconic style and the impact his unique design aesthetic has on broader visual culture. The book unpacks Burton’s distinctive visual language, exploring the intersection of gothic, carnivalesque and fantastical elements that define his cinematic masterpieces. Insightful essays by design experts and film critics, interspersed with images featured in the exhibition, will offer a deeper understanding of the director’s creative process, making this catalog an homage to the role that design practice plays in the hauntingly beautiful worlds he creates. Tim Burton (born 1958) grew up in Burbank, California, and studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. He is best known for his dark, gothic films about quirky outsiders, including Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990) and many more. Most recently, he directed and produced the TV series Wednesday (2022), which became the second-most-watched show on Netflix. He lives and works in London.
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The Financial Times
Edwin Heathcoute
From the candy-coloured suburbs of Edward Scissorhands through the brilliantly dark deco nightscapes of Gotham in his version of Batman, we can see how the director took a trip from the suburbs to the haunted mansion and somehow ended up at the twisted, trippy, hysterical toyshop that characterises his later movies and TV.
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Zoe Whitfield
The show provides a rich interrogation of [Tim Burton's] practice, highlighting in particular the relationships that have been most pivotal in the spell he’s cast over the past five decades.
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“One advantage, I think, is my design sense. When you’re drawing, every element, every line, makes up what it is; and there is a feeling of that when I think about a shot.” So Tim Burton is quoted in Designing Worlds, the vibrant, 360-page catalog to the Design Museum’s blockbuster exhibition, on view in London through April 2025. Certainly, this copiously illustrated new release proves beyond a shadow or a doubt that Burton is a master draftsman, as well as an unbeatable imagineur. Given the ever-darker, ever stranger moment that we are currently living through, we thought “Percepto” (c.1996–7) fit the mood. continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 360 pgs / 200 color / 50 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $45.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $71 ISBN: 9781872005720 PUBLISHER: The Design Museum AVAILABLE: 1/14/2025 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA ONLY
Published by The Design Museum. Edited with introduction and text by Maria McLintock. Text by Hadeel Eltayeb, Hilary Davidson, Iain Borden, Imogen West-Knights, Jenny He, Charlie Fox, Ryan White, Tim Burton. Conversations with Hadeel Eltayeb, Ian MacKinnon, Pete Saunders, Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, Colleen Atwood.
An expansive exploration of the role of design and creative practice in director Tim Burton’s unique approach to building worlds
This book is the official catalog for the exhibition at the Design Museum, as well as the first publication to explore the relationship between Tim Burton’s artistic creations and the world of design. The reader is invited into an examination of what is now broadly referred to as the “Burtonesque,” exploring his iconic style and the impact his unique design aesthetic has on broader visual culture. The book unpacks Burton’s distinctive visual language, exploring the intersection of gothic, carnivalesque and fantastical elements that define his cinematic masterpieces. Insightful essays by design experts and film critics, interspersed with images featured in the exhibition, will offer a deeper understanding of the director’s creative process, making this catalog an homage to the role that design practice plays in the hauntingly beautiful worlds he creates.
Tim Burton (born 1958) grew up in Burbank, California, and studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. He is best known for his dark, gothic films about quirky outsiders, including Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990) and many more. Most recently, he directed and produced the TV series Wednesday (2022), which became the second-most-watched show on Netflix. He lives and works in London.
