- Pablo Ferro
Pablo Ferro (born
January 15 ,1935 ) is agraphic designer and film titles designer.He was born in
Antilla , Oriente Province,Cuba . He was raised there on a remote farm until emigrating toNew York with his family as a teen.Education
It was in New York that Ferro taught himself
animation from a book byPreston Blair . In the mid-50s he began freelancing in the New York animation industry for companies such asAcademy Pictures andElektra Studios . He found his first solid job working for a studio that produced black and white commercials. Whilst working there he befriended former Disney animatorWilliam Tytla , and received first hand training from him. He also worked withStan Lee , the then-future editor ofMarvel Comics , creating a series of sci-fi adventure comics. In 1961 he became one of the partners to formFerro, Mogubgub and Schwartz with animation stylistFred Mogubgub , and in 1964 he formedPablo Ferro Films .Career
He has been hailed as a genius by director
Stanley Kubrick and has established himself in film for more than three decades as a director, editor, producer and title designer. He has been creating title sequences since the dawn ofSaul Bass ’s era and is still making title sequences today, his most recent being "Iowa" in 2005.Ferro's single best known credit is Kubrick's "", for which Ferro provided his distinctive hand-drawn titles and assembled an offbeat, almost avant-garde trailer. He has also designed titles for films including "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), "A Clockwork Orange" (1971),
Stop Making Sense (1984), "Beetlejuice " (1988), "L.A. Confidential" (1997) and "Good Will Hunting " (1997). Ferro started work professionally as acomic book artist in 1953.Ferro is known as an early master of quick-cutting and for using multiple images within one frame, a technique later taken up by
Kyle Cooper . Ferro has worked with high-tech and optical techniques. His trademark hand-drawn lettering is yet another technique that quite obviously had an influence on Kyle Cooper's work.He received the DaimlerChrysler Design Award in 1999, and the Art Directors Hall of Fame Award in October 2000.
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* [http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/2000/?id=203 Art Directors Club biography, portrait and images of work]
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