Art of the Title

The finalists for the 2021 SXSW Excellence in Title Design Awards have been announced!

In the sharply funny opening to WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? (1957) director Frank Tashlin delivers a joke every ten seconds. 

NEW: The Top 10 Title Sequences of 2020!

It’s the year’s very best title design as chosen by Art of the Title’s panel of experts! This year, everything changed. So we did, too. We pulled in new voices and expanded the team that calls the shots for the Top 10. Check out our new panel of design experts and the choices for best title design work of the year!

New!  Have you ever seen titles made using the coding language Processing? Dive into the mesmerizing end titles to The Queen’s Gambit 👑

New! We take a look at all five of the FINAL DESTINATION film title sequences! Writer Alison Lang dives deep into each film’s opening sequence, providing a taste of the carnage to come and examining the clues and Easter eggs about death’s design.

NEW! See how director Jonathan Demme primes viewers for a dark odyssey in the opening to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) — with insight from writer Willow Catelyn Maclay Titles designed by: Tibor Kalman and studio M&Co

NEW! Give yourself over to absolute pleasure with the iconic titles of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975). Writer and critic Justine Smith dives into the unforgettable opening to Richard O’Brien and Jim Sharman’s time warping, gender-bending cult classic!

NEW! Using Procreate? For big-budget Hollywood film titles? Hell yeah! We talk BIRDS OF PREY with Michael Riley of studio Shine and VFX Artist Penelope Nederlander

NEW!  Learn about UNCUT GEMS' cosmic opening titles in our chat with director Josh Safdie — plus insight from visual effects supervisor Eran Dinur (Brainstorm Digital), title design veteran Randy Balsmeyer, and designer Hassan Rahim!

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It's all moves and countermoves in the chess-based opening to HUNTERS, by creative director Jeff Han and studio Elastic. 

The winners of the 2020 SXSW Excellence in Title Design Awards have been announced!

New! Learn more about a title design luminary in NINA SAXON: A CAREER RETROSPECTIVE, Part 2! 

Saxon is the creator of the iconic title logos of Back to the Future, Romancing the Stone, The Fugitive, and hundreds more. In Part 2, we dive into her true heyday, the 1990s and 2000s, and her work for Forrest Gump, Airheads, Glengarry Glen Ross, Outbreak, The Craft, and so much more. 

NEW: The Top 10 Title Sequences of 2019!

It's the year's very best title design as chosen by Art of the Title's panel of experts. We watched over 200 sequences from film, TV, video games, and conferences to bring you the cream of the crop!

New! Learn about the dazzling opening to Melancholia (2011), a gorgeous overture for the end of the world. Writer Alex West breaks down the references to art, religion, and the Hollywood disaster film in this new feature article.

NEW! Dive into the stunning opening for Semi-Permanent Sydney 2019, where Truth is savior and shadow, creator and cannibal... From Creative Directors Hazel Baird and Heidi Berg and studio Elastic (Game of Thrones, True Detective, Westworld).