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Hearing about designers working in the industry is really interesting because it's very clear that some designers are more "Broadway" than others. David Korins is 41 and already has multiple set designs on Broadway. Korins started out as an actor, as I believe a lot of theater people do, but having that background is what may have made Korins a better designer because he learned about what actors need on the stage and he also learned about facing rejection. In this podcast, Korins describes how he became a good "artist," despite having a very little artistic background. Korins began creating things through pictures and printing and rescaling and shaping forms, and found himself "r4eally good at articulating an idea." Being able to push an idea across clearly, is what helped Korins the most and may be the reason he has so many sets on Broadway.
David Korins is pretty incredible. He isn’t stuck in one method when designing a show and listening to this podcast was super interesting. I empathize with Korins description of his love for theater and the way he discovered his love for scenery is so relatable. I appreciated the discussion of what skills that are required of being a scenic designer and being an artist in the theater. I agree that it is important that we know how to articulate and idea and communicate that to others. Whether that is drawing or displaying and idea through a composition of images or a model is up to the artist. His life story reminds me why we participate in tech, load in, and strike for all of the shows that we put on here at CMU. His ingenuity and ability to follow through with his ideas is what I think had made him so successful.
People like David Korins are truly an amazing set designer and artist and deserve all of the work and praise that they receive. His learning by doing and participating in the world around him I believe to be really relatable and has some serious direct correlations between his success and the time that he put in. It also has a really direct correlation to how we learn and are taught here at CMU and how we learn by example and first by learning to articulate our ideas and becoming artists and not just story tellers of the world around us and the environment that we are trying to create but our own minds as well. Being able to articulate and express yourself through your work is an amazing gift that so many people around him I'm sure appreciate and respect as he has given his part to some great art pieces.
The guy is amazing. Dvid Korins is one of the most successful set designers in the business right now and its pleasing to know that the technical theatre industry has so much potential. All three, Lady Gaga, Hamilton, and Dear Evan Hansenn combines an excellent color palette, cutting edge technology, and artistic innovation in its newest form. His style varies and its came out effectively all three times. Something that a lot of theatre goers forget is that scenic designers are collaborators, they do more than just highlight the characters, instead Korin has done incredible job creating a world that all differ from each other. He has created sets that remain fresh as it passes through over thirty years, and has indulged into the world of the ether and splatted it out onstage displaying social media in its core sense. I'm grateful that there are designers that continuously reinvent theatre in the modern world.
THIS WAS AN AMAZING INTERVIEW! I strongly encourage you to listen to the podcast and more importantly all the way through to the end. David Korins is now my all time favorite scenic designer of all times and I haven't seen the 2 major recent productions or his Gaga concert. I connected with him so much based on his life experience, especially starting on the stage when he was younger, and having that one show that stands out as the spark of his love for theatre. His methods of production proses is exactly how I imagine it and hopped it is. But the biggest reason why I got so excited about this interview can at the very end of the interview. David was asked if he had one wish what would he ask for and his answer is breathtaking and jaw dropping all at the same time! He’s answer was “Diversity”. This has been at the core of my personal goal for the theatre in general for so long. He is so right, when he says only the stigma that ‘we have to produce shows that cater to the majority’. His response is priceless: can’t there be 2 majorities?. For me this just affirms my desire and will focused my dedication to make Broadway a more divers body of art.
I certainly hope I find time to listen to this Podcast, but the brief article is a great intro and attention getter. David Korins is quite a talented designer who really knows what he wants. I was able to work on a project of his this summer and I could tell how detail oriented he is and how much he cares about what a finished product looks like. I am quite impressed at his wide range of design aesthetics. He certainly has a style, but it does not get in the way of certain needs for a show. I am also really curious to hear how Korins describes his process and what it takes for him to come up with new designs. I am always interested in hearing about ideas that weren’t used and why. I also did not really know that Korins did designs for Lady Gaga so I am interested to see how he sees Broadway and concerts. I see them as the same, the main difference is that with one, you need to build something that goes on the stage, with the other you get to build the stage.
This was honestly an article that I wish had more substance than it actually did. This article was basically a glorified ad for a podcast done in the style of native advertising. And I honestly can really explain as well as I wish I could why the infuriates me so much. The main things for me is that you go in expecting to actually have some meat to bit into weather it be interview questions or the interviewed giving a short little story that you hope will shed light on the design aspect of the industr,y and you end up be lead like the bull by the matador to yet another sit to find out more info. Native advertising is if anything one of the biggest plagues on me when I'm reading new articles and I really wish we would go back to either separating advertising from articles or at least be more subtle.
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Hearing about designers working in the industry is really interesting because it's very clear that some designers are more "Broadway" than others. David Korins is 41 and already has multiple set designs on Broadway. Korins started out as an actor, as I believe a lot of theater people do, but having that background is what may have made Korins a better designer because he learned about what actors need on the stage and he also learned about facing rejection. In this podcast, Korins describes how he became a good "artist," despite having a very little artistic background. Korins began creating things through pictures and printing and rescaling and shaping forms, and found himself "r4eally good at articulating an idea." Being able to push an idea across clearly, is what helped Korins the most and may be the reason he has so many sets on Broadway.
David Korins is pretty incredible. He isn’t stuck in one method when designing a show and listening to this podcast was super interesting. I empathize with Korins description of his love for theater and the way he discovered his love for scenery is so relatable. I appreciated the discussion of what skills that are required of being a scenic designer and being an artist in the theater. I agree that it is important that we know how to articulate and idea and communicate that to others. Whether that is drawing or displaying and idea through a composition of images or a model is up to the artist. His life story reminds me why we participate in tech, load in, and strike for all of the shows that we put on here at CMU. His ingenuity and ability to follow through with his ideas is what I think had made him so successful.
People like David Korins are truly an amazing set designer and artist and deserve all of the work and praise that they receive. His learning by doing and participating in the world around him I believe to be really relatable and has some serious direct correlations between his success and the time that he put in. It also has a really direct correlation to how we learn and are taught here at CMU and how we learn by example and first by learning to articulate our ideas and becoming artists and not just story tellers of the world around us and the environment that we are trying to create but our own minds as well. Being able to articulate and express yourself through your work is an amazing gift that so many people around him I'm sure appreciate and respect as he has given his part to some great art pieces.
The guy is amazing. Dvid Korins is one of the most successful set designers in the business right now and its pleasing to know that the technical theatre industry has so much potential. All three, Lady Gaga, Hamilton, and Dear Evan Hansenn combines an excellent color palette, cutting edge technology, and artistic innovation in its newest form. His style varies and its came out effectively all three times. Something that a lot of theatre goers forget is that scenic designers are collaborators, they do more than just highlight the characters, instead Korin has done incredible job creating a world that all differ from each other. He has created sets that remain fresh as it passes through over thirty years, and has indulged into the world of the ether and splatted it out onstage displaying social media in its core sense. I'm grateful that there are designers that continuously reinvent theatre in the modern world.
THIS WAS AN AMAZING INTERVIEW! I strongly encourage you to listen to the podcast and more importantly all the way through to the end. David Korins is now my all time favorite scenic designer of all times and I haven't seen the 2 major recent productions or his Gaga concert. I connected with him so much based on his life experience, especially starting on the stage when he was younger, and having that one show that stands out as the spark of his love for theatre. His methods of production proses is exactly how I imagine it and hopped it is. But the biggest reason why I got so excited about this interview can at the very end of the interview. David was asked if he had one wish what would he ask for and his answer is breathtaking and jaw dropping all at the same time! He’s answer was “Diversity”. This has been at the core of my personal goal for the theatre in general for so long. He is so right, when he says only the stigma that ‘we have to produce shows that cater to the majority’. His response is priceless: can’t there be 2 majorities?. For me this just affirms my desire and will focused my dedication to make Broadway a more divers body of art.
I certainly hope I find time to listen to this Podcast, but the brief article is a great intro and attention getter. David Korins is quite a talented designer who really knows what he wants. I was able to work on a project of his this summer and I could tell how detail oriented he is and how much he cares about what a finished product looks like. I am quite impressed at his wide range of design aesthetics. He certainly has a style, but it does not get in the way of certain needs for a show. I am also really curious to hear how Korins describes his process and what it takes for him to come up with new designs. I am always interested in hearing about ideas that weren’t used and why. I also did not really know that Korins did designs for Lady Gaga so I am interested to see how he sees Broadway and concerts. I see them as the same, the main difference is that with one, you need to build something that goes on the stage, with the other you get to build the stage.
This was honestly an article that I wish had more substance than it actually did. This article was basically a glorified ad for a podcast done in the style of native advertising. And I honestly can really explain as well as I wish I could why the infuriates me so much. The main things for me is that you go in expecting to actually have some meat to bit into weather it be interview questions or the interviewed giving a short little story that you hope will shed light on the design aspect of the industr,y and you end up be lead like the bull by the matador to yet another sit to find out more info. Native advertising is if anything one of the biggest plagues on me when I'm reading new articles and I really wish we would go back to either separating advertising from articles or at least be more subtle.
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