Heather Pollington: From Hollywood to The Symbolic World

Heather Pollington is a UK-based Lead Graphic and Surface Designer working in the Film and Television Industry. She has been involved with many popular films like Hellboy 2, Skyfall, Maleficent 2, Marvel's Eternals, and more. She designed the new Symbolic World logo and will be working with me to publish a series of fairy tale books, starting with Snow White.In this discussion, Heather takes us through the creative process of her work in various film projects and finally, we discuss the unique design of our new Symbolic World logo.Heather's website: https://www.heatherpollington.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heather.pollington/-----------------------Timestamps:00:00:00 - Coming up next...00:01:19 - Intro music00:01:43 - Introduction00:02:30 - How did you come to your profession?00:04:39 - Encountering The Symbolic World00:05:56 - Hierarchy in film-making00:10:56 - The guiding question00:12:43 - Where she started00:13:40 - Hellboy 2: Context is everything00:19:39 - Bond films: setting up a contrast00:24:31 - The emotion00:26:28 - The Medieval aesthetics in films00:29:25 - Mary Poppins: memory00:31:51 - Maleficent 200:38:13 - How much technology defines art00:41:39 - Subtle coherence00:46:21 - ~budget and design in church00:51:30 - The Symbolic World logo00:52:47 - Build on what's already there00:54:53 - The Peridexion tree and the dragon00:56:30 - First drafts00:59:09 - Lettering01:03:43 - The dragon01:05:54 - Suggestion01:06:59 - A hybrid dragon01:09:17 - Snow White-----------------------💻 Website and blog: http://www.thesymbolicworld.com🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jonathanpageau 🗣 Join The Symbolic World Community for discussions about symbolism: https://thesymbolicworld.com/subscribe 🔒 BECOME A PATRON Website: https://thesymbolicworld.com/subscribe Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/pageauvideos 📱 SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheSymbolicWorld Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pageaujonathan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathan.pageauOur website designers: https://www.resonancehq.io/ My intro was arranged and recorded by Matthew Wilkinson.