Jennifer Morden is a Production Designer based in British Columbia, Canada. She began her career as a Designer after completing a degree in Design for Arts & Entertainment at Ryerson University in 2010. Prior to this, she was working as a Photographer and often found herself pre-occupied by imagining and constructing the spaces she was having her models live in. Since 2012 she has been Set Decorating, Drafting and Art Directing on various projects before she transitioned into her role as a Production Designer both on Independent and Union productions.
Most recently, Jennifer was the Production Designer on the 8 part mini-series, Under The Bridge, on Hulu/Disney+, starring Riley Keough & Lily Gladstone. Jennifer was nominated for a 2021 Canadian Screen Award for her Design on The Kid Detective, directed by Evan Morgan, starring Adam Brody; and was nominated in 2020 for the post-apocalyptic thrilled, Riot Girls, directed by Jovanka Vuckovic. Over the last few years, Jennifer has been designing studio productions including FRESH, produced by HyperObject Industries and distributed by Searchlight Pictures. She has designed two films for ACE Entertainment which are still in post production, including Loveboat, Taipei, which took her to Taiwan for production, and Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between, shot in Vancouver . Another production which is still in post, is Alice, Darling, starring Anna Kendrick, and directed by Mary Nighy. In 2018, Jennifer completed her most complicated and design heavy feature film titled Flashback, directed by Chris MacBride, in addition to her first docu-drama titled, House of Invention. In 2017, she designed Chris Eigeman’s Blumhouse produced horror film, Seven in Heaven, which is now on Netflix. In 2016, she designed Daniel DiMarco’s feature film in interior British Colombia called Juggernaut which premiered at the Whistler Mountain Film Fest. Prior to this, Jennifer’s first feature film, Silent Retreat won ‘Best Canadian Feature’ at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival and her work on PYOTR 495 earned an official selection at the Fantasia Film Festival and Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Between her time in features, Jennifer designs commercials and runs an experiential design company, called Local Colour designing installations with her business partner, Jill Cohen. A list of her clients include: Ford, Google, Lululemon, Ford, Kelloggs, Kroger, Kinder, Tide, McDonalds, Crown Royal, Rogers, BMO, Koodo and Tim Horton’s to name a few.
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"To be 'an architect of dreams' is to be a purveyor of wonderment. The production designer must have the heart of a child - one that is insatiably curious and excited by new discoveries..."