Jim Bissell
“The challenge of production design is that there are two equally important pipelines to develop from the get-go… And those are going on concurrently, right brain, left brain, constantly. I find the two processes inform each other in ways that I really like. Limitations often dictate style and style is something that’s really interesting to me.”
Born in 1951 in Charleston, South Carolina, Jim Bissell started creating worlds at a very early age, building Civil War dioramas for a local history museum. He graduated with a BFA in theater design from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and tried his luck in New York before ...
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