Talk:
Type in Film
with Louise Sandhaus
When we think about typography and film, titles quickly come to mind. On second thought, we recall the inter-title cards in silent films or subtitles for foreign-language cinema. And, of course, there’s always typographically-endowed props like books, signage, magazines, and screen interfaces. But what about typography when it’s part of the story-telling, playing a companion role to live action? Where words dressed in their letterform costumes help to advance the plot? This presentation will survey type in film historically and offer a glimpse into its increasingly starring role in cinematic narratives for screens large and small.
This talk is scheduled as part of the main Typographics conference schedule. You must register for the Typographics conference to attend.
About Louise Sandhaus
Louise Sandhaus is the former program director and current faculty in the Graphic Design Program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Her book, Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots: California and Graphic Design 1936-1986, published in late 2014 by Metropolis Books and Thames & Hudson, received international laudatory attention including the Palm D’argent from 2015 The International Art Book and Film Festival (FILAF) and was included in AIGA/Design Observer’s 2014 50 Books|50 Covers selection. Her second book, A Colorful Life: Gere Kavanaugh, Designer, co-written and designed with Kat Catmur, will be published this spring by Princeton Architectural Press. She is currently working on Making History, a national initiative to preserve graphic design history through a crowd-sourced effort and was the subject of her 2018 TEDx UCLA talk, “Many Images; Many Possibilities.” Louise’s work, writing, and writing about her work have appeared in numerous publications and her work is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Louise is a Letterform Archive board member, former AIGA board member and former Chair of the AIGA Design Educators Community steering committee.
