Annie Atkins

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 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."

Atkins was lead graphic designer on The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). The film won the Academy Award for Best Production Design at the 87th Academy Awards.

Atkins worked on her first video game project, "That's You!", in 2018.

She teaches workshops out of her studio in Dublin, Ireland.

Filmography

Television TitleNotesThe Tudors Titanic: Blood and Steel Vikings

Film