In Conversation: The Graphic Language of Wes Anderson’s Films

After eight years as a London-based graphic designer, Erica discovered the film industry in 2018 through a role supporting Annie Atkins’ work on Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs. She has since led the graphics department for a total of five Wes Anderson productions, including The French Dispatch, Asteroid City and the Phoenician Scheme. She has also collaborated with other acclaimed directors including Steve McQueen and has built a diverse portfolio of branding and commercials.

Annie has designed graphics for many Oscar-nominated and winning films, such as Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel and Isle of Dogs, and Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, and West Side Story and the latest Indiana Jones. Her first book, Fake Love Letters, prompted Jeff Goldblum to write that “Annie makes the real more supremely alive and utterly magical”. Her second book, Letters from the North Pole, was shortlisted at the British Book Awards.

Johanna Agerman Ross was appointed the Conran Foundation Chief Curator at the Design Museum in 2023. She was previously curator of twentieth century and contemporary furniture and product design at the V&A where she co-curated the new permanent gallery Design 1900-Now and launched Make Good: Rethinking Material Futures, focused on design and the climate emergency. She founded the international design journal Disegno in 2011, which she edited for five years. She is still Disegno’s director.

Delve into Wes Anderson’s extensive archive in this first retrospective exhibition devoted to his distinctive cinematic output, produced in collaboration with la Cinémathèque française.