Martin Laing is a British production designer. Martin Laing was born and raised in England, the son of Academy Award-winning production designer Robert W. Laing. During his childhood he traveled the world on location with his father and spent all of his free time on film sets. After attending design college in London, he joined the film industry in 1985 and began what is now a 21-year career in the art department. Laing moved to Los Angeles in 1993.