Annie Atkins
Welsh graphic designer
Annie Atkins is a Welsh/Irish graphic designer and prop maker for film and television. She is known for her graphic design work in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and has gone on to work with director Wes Anderson on Isle of Dogs (2018) and The French Dispatch (2021).
Early life
Atkins grew up in Dolwyddelan in Northern Wales. Her mother was an artist and her father a graphic designer. Atkins graduated with a degree in visual communications from Ravensbourne University London. After graduation, she worked as an art director in the advertising agency McCann-Erickson in Reykjavík, Iceland. In 2007, she enrolled in University College Dublin's master's in film production program after losing enthusiasm for her work at McCann-Erickson. Inteviewed in 2017, she said: "I thought I'd leave design completely, that I'd study film and be a camera operator or a technician, and then I found this whole other world of design."
Career
After graduating from University College Dublin, she worked as a designer on the third season of the BBC costume drama The Tudors in 2008. As the role was broadly defined, she had varying responsibilities, such as working as a stonemason, signwriter and scribe, and prop maker. After The Tudors, Atkins remained in Dublin and bounced around film jobs.
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