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The end credit sequence by Danny Yount, creative director at Prologue, visually relates planetary bodies in outer space to the macro world of cells, blobs of blood plasma and floating particles inside the human vascular system – a world that we've only recently become aware of by way of the electron microscope, but remains quite alien to us nonetheless.

News reached us via Flux of yet another Title Design competition: TDC INTRO 010, an Annual Competition and Showcase of Title Design. Initiated by The Type Directors Club, this new competition aims to recognize excellence in title design. Title design is hot, and getting hotter by the hour. New websites, competitions, shows, events, and books are popping up everywhere. TDC though believes they are the first to recognize the creative talent in title design. Guess they haven't been looking online much for the past 4 years! But this is good news. Prediction: the long awaited Oscar for Main Title Design will soon follow.
More info on the competition here

"The first title sequence that made a really big impression on me was the The Dead Zone for David Cronenberg’s movie," says title designer Kyle Cooper. "I realized at that point that my interest in film and my interest in typography and graphic design could somehow be the source of another vocation."

Spike Jonze's new movie is coming out next month. In a recent post on his blog, Jonze visits the studio of graphic designer Geoff McFetridge "to work on the final credits for the movie." A nice photographic inside peek at McFetridge working at what looks like a nice handwitten Pablo Ferro-like end credit sequence.
Via thestrangeattractor.net (tnx Jorrit)

We sat down with main title designer Danny Yount at the Prologue studios in Venice Beach, L.A. Yount talked about his main title for Iron Man, his Emmy award-winning main title for  HBO's show Six Feet Under, and the difference between designing for television and film. His favorite main title is Se7en. (6'20").

We like the short but sweet title sequence for the American tv show 'Community'. Creative director Erin Sarofsky reminisced about her own high school years and came up with the idea of creating a title sequence based on the Cootie Catcher.

Hot off the press: SXSW added the 'Excellence in Title Design' award to their Film Design awards. "Open internationally to all Title Sequences that exist as part of a completed film finished in 2009 or later". SubmarineChannel and ArtOfTheTitle in the jury! Deadline: December 11. More info here

motion504's magical title sequence for AICP's annual show combines fantastic automotive devices and kinetic type. The title sequence features the names of the event's sponsors, but nevertheless has true "Hollywood Appeal".

Garson Yu is the founder and creative director of yU+co – a motion design company in L.A. responsible for numerous eye-catching title sequences. To name but two: the innovative animated end credit sequence for '300' and the cleverly embedded opening credits for much-discussed 6-minute opening sequence of Watchmen. We asked Yu about past and current trends in title design and he talks about his favorite title sequence, Se7en. (5'32")