Behind the Screens: Illustrated Floor Plans and Scenes from the Best TV Shows of All Time
TLDR: “Fun little coffee table-ish book”
I’ve always been interested in how we relate to fictional spaces, mentally. There’s a whole sub-genre of art that creates floorplans for fictional spaces, and I’ve always been amazed at how interesting I find it. We identify so much with these spaces, and it’s fascinating for me to see them laid out.
Years ago, I did a couple LEGO sets from the show Friends. It was very…contemplative. It forced me to consider the spaces in ways that I hadn’t. I was absorbed in it.
Same with this book. You look at these floor plans, and your mind is taken back to the adventures “you” had there. It’s just kind of a weird intimacy.
The book covers a bunch of shows that you would know: sitcoms, dramas, family shows, etc. For each, it has some narrative, then the plans, then other diagrams of props from the set.
It’s a great book to page through. Hardcover, would make a lovely coffee table book or a book for an office waiting room – everyone can relate to it, and it’s very low-overhead and high-happiness (?) from a mental standpoint.
(There’s a larger issue of how we relate to spaces from an information architecture standpoint. I wrote about this a bit on LinkedIn.)
Book Info
- I have read this book. According to my records, I completed it on .
- A hardcover copy of this book is currently in my home library.