Tim Burton’s Sketchbook 11 Previous Next Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs. Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs. Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs. Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs. Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs. Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs. Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs. Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs. Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs. Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs. Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter David Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has also worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California in 1958, and as a boy he was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He worked as an apprentice animator at Disney in the early 1980s, and during that time he produced this imaginative series of decorated numbers for an unpublished children’s book. “The World of Tim Burton,” a new exhibition at the Design Museum of London, presents more than 600 of Burton’s engrossing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs. October 26, 2024 The Guardian Illustrations: © Tim Burton/Courtesy of the Design Museum of London