Design in a Frame of Emotion

By Hannah Beachler

A conversation about design, filmmaking, Afrofuturism, world-building, and other topics with Hannah Beachler, Academy-Award-winning production designer of Black Panther.

Hannah Beachler is known as an award-winning production designer, but she tells an audience that she considers herself to be more of a story designer. As film stills and concept art from a few of those stories--Moonlight, Miles Ahead, Creed, Lemonade, and Black Panther--flash across a screen, Beachler engages in a meandering conversation with Jacqueline Stewart and Toni L. Griffin about set building and curation, urban design, location scouting, Afrofuturism, fictional histories, and Black feminist narratives, and illustrates her role: a designer behind on-screen tableaux that provide not only visual feasts of artistry and imagination, but also intimate spaces of emotion, humanity, and constructed memory.

Copublished with Harvard University Graduate School of Design

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3956795598
• ISBN13: 9783956795596
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.5" x 7.0"