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Friday, March 17, 2023

How “Star Wars” and Versace Inspired “Ted Lasso's” Production Design

Variety: As the new season of “Ted Lasso” returned to Apple TV+ Wednesday, audiences will see some new faces and places. Season 2 of the Emmy-winning series ended with rising PR star Keeley Jones (Juno Temple) striking out on her own, preparing to launch her own firm. Meanwhile, Nate “the Great” Shelley (Nick Mohammed) joined the Dark Side, as head coach of Rupert Mannion’s (Anthony Head) newly acquired football club, West Ham.

2 comments:

Sukie Wang said...

This is such a new way in looking in different designs and elements that have been long lasting and inspirational. For works like the Star Wars, its long lasting impact on different types designs that exist in this world is extraordinary and unique. For Versace, the signature pattern and use in color has been a sign for it where often enough, black and gold automatically equals to Versace. In this situation, creating designs inspired by these two well known inspirations can be hard as it is hard to remove the original impressions of people have on an element and make it something new and original. However, in this situation, they have done a great job in combining those elements together to achieve the effect that they wants. The final rendering shown of the office is exactly giving me the mysterious and dark feeling which was described in the article by the artist.

Kendall Swartz said...

I really enjoyed this article because it really shows how much work and inspiration goes in production design. I really love Ted Lasso and didn't realize what other pop culture references went into the production design. From the first season I really loved the clean look of her office as talked about in the article. With her office I feel like it was tied together through contrast with Nate’s office. Even though not seen in the same seasons I feel like it shows the contrast of the characters and seasons of the show. The main element this article talked about was the pop culture inspirations made towards building the new dark office for Nate. I really enjoyed learning that they pulled from Star Wars. I feel like it is really smart when designers pull from known pieces of pop culture. It brings together generations of people to recognize those elements through new shows and movies.