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Writing & Interviews

Essays written for the Art Directors Guild, and conversations about how the work got made.

Netflix Tudum · July 9, 2026 · Brookie McIlvaine

The Locations of Little House on the Prairie: Book to Screen

A location-by-location walkthrough with Markowitz and set decorator James V. Kent — the wagon, the cabin build, the well, the Independence backlot. Interview feature

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ADG Perspectives · 2025 · By Jonah Markowitz

Duster: A Sun-Bleached World of Memory, Myth and Motion

On the primary-color palette, the decision to build no hallways or exits, and the desert as a state of mind. Essay for the Art Directors Guild

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The Credits · Motion Picture Association · Hugh Hart · July 2, 2025

“Duster” Production Designer Jonah Markowitz Brings 1970s Arizona to 2025 New Mexico

On throwing out the usual seventies earth-tone playbook, deconstructing an Elvis Presley bowling alley, and why Duster's seventies are really the sixties. Interview

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ADG Perspectives · July/August 2023 · By Jonah Markowitz

On Stage and Behind Closed Doors: George & Tammy

On designing the couple's public stages against their private rooms, and rebuilding the Landmark suite at triple its real scale. Essay for the Art Directors Guild

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Little House on the Prairie

Season 1 premiered July 9, 2026 on Netflix. Reviews and features that engage with the show's sets, locations and visual approach.

Duster

HBO Max, 2025. Building 1972 Phoenix in present-day New Mexico.

George & Tammy

Showtime, 2022. The Grand Ole Opry, First Lady Acres, and a Las Vegas suite that no longer exists.

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

2015. San Francisco in 1976, at the seam between the fading hippie era and the arrival of punk.