The Hollywood production designer reveals her recipe for a colorful ‘50s-style sci-fi world
With its hovercars, dog-walking robots, jetpacks, self-popping popcorn, video phones, and android bartenders, the show offers an alternative version of post-war America where technology evolved along a different path. In conjuring up this optimistic future brimming with possibility, production designer Maya Sigel drew from a number of sources to craft a believable playground for these fast-talking hucksters making their way in this wondrous world.
Another element that you may notice is that mostly the Vistaville architectural lines are all straight, for instance the houses are traditional and boxy, and with everything that is futuristic or has to do with the moon, I've used curves and circles. You can see this in the first shot of Jack in the Vista Motor Lodge's Rotunda, selling the Brightside homes with the aid of our miniature model — circular residences under a dome. Space.
So, Vistaville is mostly in the Earth tone palette - Marie and Joey's house, Myrtle's house, Hartoonian's, Eternal Springs Rest Home. Brightside's branding is all blue and I thought of The Vista Motor Lodge as the space where the two worlds meet. Drawing on a lot of inspiration from mid-century roadside architecture and the Googie style this made sense. Other architectural inspirations included, especially his later work, and Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal.
This is an era that I’ve always been interested in and it was so much fun to really do a deep dive into research and then create something new. Some of my favorite gadgets and set decoration pieces are the Viddicon machines and booths, the CleanzAll Bot, and the ZipGroom. I have friends who really want the KernelFresh.
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