From Kill Screen

You may never have heard of Diane Lederman, but that’s only because her work is, by design, invisible. As a production designer, she is responsible for making the worlds we see on TV and film look believable. She recreated mid-80s Americana for AMC’s Cold War thriller The Americans (2013), and on HBO’s The Leftovers (2014) she envisioned an apocalypse at once heartbreaking, mundane, and chillingly surreal. (Ugh, the plaster casts at the end of season one.)

This last vision struck an oddly resonant chord with one of last year’s best games, The Chinese Room’s Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (2015), which similarly aimed to explore the emotional aftermath of the apocalypse. Lederman joined us in New York for Kill Screen Fest to speak with that game’s environmental artist, Alex Grahame about the similarities between their fields…

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