Shephard Fairey has been known for quite some time in the art and skateboarding world for his Obey Giant campaign, which uses a propaganda style inspired heavily by 1984. During the past year he became famous for creating the iconic “Hope” image of Obama, which was reprinted on just about every surface and material imaginable during the election.

Nine Inch Nails’ highly under appreciated album “Year Zero”, which came out in 2007, was based on a dystopian culture similar to the one in 1984, although in this case, the year is 2022. It presents a dark picture of what NIN visionary Trent Reznor sees as the future of the world if the politics of today continue into the future. This was the last album NIN produced before splitting from Universal Music Group and making future releases (“Ghosts” and “The Slip”) available under Creative Commons licenses. Luckily for our sound design team, those CC licenses mean that we can use the music of those latter two albums in the production.

Keep checking back for more updates about filming as we continue working on the play. It will be performed only twice in Mid-April by Bradley Theatre’s Ministry of Experimental Theatre.

Another title sequence that I also really enjoyed was this sequence for the film “Lucio”. I liked the fast pace and high energy through the piece as well as the way the type was dealt with. Type has always been one of the hardest things for me to incorporate into pieces, and I always like finding examples that I can use as inspiration to get me to think a little bit harder about how I use type in my own work.

This opening sequence for “Odyssey In Rome” is another that dealt with type in a new and creative way. As opposed to using graphics for the bulk of the sequence, there were few images used and it was very text heavy.

Hope you enjoyed these as much as I did! Check back later for more.