“Whether it’s my work or personal, I keep it moving.”
—Pablo Ferro (1935–2018)
The
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(1964)
title design was one of the first times I ever noticed a film’s titles.
For me,
as a designer, it was the era of using markers to make custom tape covers and it just so happened to be the same year I first saw
Stop Making Sense
(1984)
which also used the same style of titles.
Thus,
here was a style that theoretically anyone could do with simple tools *but* there was a design logic to it as well, so you still had to interpret what the designer was after and how the rules would carry through to new blocks of text.
I learned a lot just trying to reverse engineer it with my markers.
Believe it or not,
it’s not an easy style to get right.
—jason malmberg
Flommist Jason Malmberg is a simple man who believes in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art sometimes. Copyright © 2018 Jason Malmberg.
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