Saturday, November 04, 2006

Film title design

"SAUL BASS (1920-1996) was not only one of the great graphic designers of the mid-20th century but the undisputed master of film title design thanks to his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Martin Scorsese."

He has been desiging film titles since the dawn of time from The Seven Year Itch (1955), to the very well known Goodfellas (1990). His last film title sequence was Casino (1995).


He has also designed some very famous logos such as:-

Identity for United Airlines -

Identity for Minolta -

source - www.designmuseum.org/design/saul-bass
his mighty portfolio can be seen her - www.imdb.com/name/nm0000866/



Pablo Ferro

Another film title designer. Designed such film titles as the highly acclaimed Clockwork Orange and Napoleon Dynamite one of my favourite movies, and it does have an awesome intro, which unfortunately i couldn't find a video of but i do have a clip from the movie.

.....gotta learn that dance......
all of his film title designs can be found here www.imdb.com/name//nm0274998/



Kyle Cooper

Kyle has done a more famous and recent movie title sequences than the above.
the most famous would be Spiderman 1 and 2 with some really nice animation, Superman returns, mission impossible, zoolander (another favourite of mine) and seven

seven title sequence


"Andrea Codrington relates that Cooper’s work first garnered major attention in 1995 with his creation of the extraordinary title sequence for the horror thriller Seven, which is credited with bringing about a renaissance in innovative film title design. Seven’s titles were touted as short films in their own right--not merely a “design solution” but a metaphorical representation of the film as a whole"
i love this intro, interesting audio visual contrast. AWESOME! :D
He also created the title design for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. Being an avid gamer i know that the metal gear series are more like movies than games, very cinematic and storyline based so its unsuprising that film tilte designers are beginning to deisgn titles for single player games.

all of his workings can be found here www.imdb.com/name/nm0178204/

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