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Monday, December 03, 2018

Playing with Scale: How Stage Designers Use Set Models Exhibit at the National Theatre

Stage Directions: Playing with Scale: How Stage Designers Use Set Models is a new free exhibition at the National Theatre that explores how designers use set models for theatre-making. Playing with Scale unfolds the idea of a scale model and explains the importance of models as a design tool. This free exhibition is in the Wolfson Gallery and it’s open now and runs through March 23, 2019.

1 comment:

Vanessa Ramon said...

This is so cool! I have always been amazed by each scale model I see and just how much detail the designers put into them. I think this fascination can be found in many people, thus making scale models an interesting way to give people a look into a very important, time consuming process of designing for the stage. There must be a reason that designers continue to put so much effort into making a tiny scale model of their design ideas before they commit to a design. I think there is a lot more to discover in a model than most would assume. When all of the elements are materialized into a model so that everyone on the team can see the design as a whole is a great tool that the scale model provides in the process. This will help the designer not only decide if they like the idea in general but also decide how pieces of the design interact and which ones are crucial.