helpful hint

you may need to click on the dates on the side menu i.e november/ december to view all of my artists/designers.

websites

timburtoncollective.com/multimedia.html

youtube.com/watch?v=i8-kmjbqkw

2.foxsearchlight.com/napoleondynamite/

Tom Gauld

I love the layout style Gauld uses in his comics/graphic novels, and the way images mirror each other with only minor differences. His use of layout really makes his storys flow well and I love his use of line as you get a feel of real texture and movement.

Saul Bass

Bass is regarded and I have formed the opinion that he is and was the designer who revolutionized the design of film title sequences, beginning with Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones. He pioneered the use of animation techniques to achieve a range of psychological and emotional effects unobtainable with straight type. when Saul Bass collaborated with Otto Preminge for his controversial movie A Man With A Golden Arm Preminger wanted his audience to see the movie titles as an intergrated part of the film and it was Bass's job to do exactly that. Bass's titles featured an animated black paper-cut-out of a heroin addicts arm, knowing its powerful effect and portrail of addiction.

The titles for that movie siginfied the reinvention of the movie title as an art form.

Bass has really stood out to me from the list of artist/designers that I have explored as his work seems to be a mile stone/turning point in the new emerging industry of title sequence design. He has been an influential designer to many of the designers I have studied, some have become his succesor in the production of the title sequence. which are movies within the,selves and yet are perfectly linked to there content. He used new innovative designs and techniques whihc gave him that edge amongst the film title industry. Bass was an unknow name to me until Idiscovered that I had heard of or actually seem some of his works and have grown a real interest into this area of design.

Jared Hess

I love the title sequence to napoleon dynamite, the simple use of alphabet soup/ letters is really effective and perfectly merges with the movie and its content.

Pablo Ferro

Pablo Farro is seen as Saul Bass's sucsessor and is most famous for his opening credits to Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Ferro is also mistaken for the productuion of the bizarre title sequence for Napoleon Dynamite in which the credits are written in food.

The young Ferro expanded his interest in the cinema working as an usher in a 42nd Street theater that screened foreign films. Working with STAN LEE (the future editor of Marvel Comics) as a penciller he produced a series of adventure stories before moving into animation. He trained with Disneys William Tytal and learned well, From the revolutionary split-screen montage of the original The Thomas Crown Affair,to the opening sequence from To Die For and beyond, Ferro put his indelible stamp on the living image and increasing world of title sequence design. Ferro's distinctive hand-drawn opening segments have appeared in films ranging from Stop Making Sense, American Heart, and the Addams Family to Men in Black and gave him that cutting edge individual look.

Stanley Spencer

Spencer is an artist I am familiar with, he creates paintings which tell narratives very well and are often religious or painted in churches as frescos. His painting style does not appeal to me and I find it hard to appreciate his work. I do however agree that his works have great narratives within them, as well as allowing the viewer to form their own narrative and view from what they see.