FREE ASSOCIATION: PRODUCTION DESIGNER JEREMY HINDLE ON BUILDING SEVERANCE

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Emmy-winning production designer Jeremy Hindle transformed a sparse script description of "four desks, large room" into Lumon Industries' unsettling corporate world. Drawing from Jacques Tati's "Playtime," Eero Saarinen's architecture, and Dieter Rams' furniture, he created an atmosphere described as "stunning and lonely." His design philosophy focuses on crafting emotion through kinetic rather than cerebral responses, using references from films like "Fargo" and "Twin Peaks" to build Severance's uncanny aesthetic.