Pablo Ferro
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Pablo Ferro (born January 15, 1935) is a graphic designer and film titles designer.
Born in Antilla, Oriente Province, Cuba, he was raised on a remote farm until emigrating to New York with his family as a teen.
Education
Ferro taught himself animation from a book by Preston Blair. In the mid-50s he began freelancing in the New York animation industry for Academy Pictures and Elektra Studios. He found his first solid job with a company that made commercials. It was while working there that he met and befriended former Disney animator William Tytla, who became a mentor. Another co-worker was Stan Lee, the then-future editor of Marvel Comics, with whom he created a series of sci-fi adventure comics. In 1961 he became one of the partners to form Ferro, Mogubgub and Schwartz with animation stylist Fred Mogubgub, and in 1964 he formed Pablo Ferro Films.
Career
Though he has amassed film credits as a director, editor, and producer, he is most famous for his title design. A contemporary of Saul Bass, Ferro has done title sequences for such classic films as Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stop Making Sense (1984), Beetlejuice (1988), L.A. Confidential (1997) and Good Will Hunting (1997). He was described as a genius by Stanley Kubrick.[1]
Ferro is known as an early master of quick-cutting and for using multiple images within one frame,[2] 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. In 2005 a feature film about his life started production. The film, "Pablo" is a blend of standard documentary footage and animated sequences and is scheduled for release in 2010.
References
- ^ Woolman, Matt (2000). Moving type: designing for time and space. Rotovision. p. 116. ISBN 9782880463694.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Krasner, Jon S. (2008). Motion graphic design: applied history and aesthetics. Focal Press. p. 23. ISBN 9780240809892.
See also
External links
- Pablo Ferro at IMDb