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INTERVIEW: DOUG CHIANG

Doug

Chiang

Reinventing

Galaxies

In the second part of Insider s exclusive hen Doug Chiang was made head of
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interview with Lucasfilm’s vice president and W Lucasfilm’s art department in 1995,
he realized that he had landed the
executive creative director, Doug Chiang talks job of a lifetime. As a Star Wars fan
about working with George Lucas and pushing since 1977, Chiang had long hoped
the boundaries of Star Wars design. to work for the studio that had
made cinema’s most famous trilogy, but had never
dreamed that he might be doing so just as work was
W ORDS: TAR A BENNETT
beginning on a whole new series of Star Wars fi lms.
Hand-picked by George Lucas on the strength of his
portfolio, he found himself working closely with the

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