For the fifth year running, Art of the Title returns to Austin, Texas for the 2014 SXSW Festival, and the Excellence in Title Design Awards

The event will begin with a presentation from Art of the Title's Senior Editor Will Perkins and Managing Editor Lola Landekic on the history of title design in Hollywood, the emergence of titles in video games, and how games use the visual language of film to introduce players to virtual worlds, characters, and stories. In addition, film and video game title designer Henry Hobson (a 2014 finalist for The Last of Us) will join Will and Lola for a short Q&A.

Founder and Editor-in-Chief Ian Albinson will once again act as a juror for the title design competition, and joining him this year as fellow jurors will be Pamela Green, a co-founder, producer, and creative director at PIC Agency, and Yen Tan, a filmmaker, copywriter, and graphic designer.

The Title Design Screening will take place Sunday, March 9th, at 4:30pm in the Vimeo Theater and will showcase this year’s 18 finalists (viewable below).

 

Be sure to add the screening & discussion to your schedule here.

Please join us if you’re attending the festival this year and say hello!

The 2014 Finalists for the Excellence in Title Design Awards:

 

Analogue/Digital BNE 2013 (view article)
Designer: Joyce Ho
Studio: Breeder

 

ANR
Designer: Luis Felipe Bueno
Studio: The Jack Stupid

  

Black Sails (view article)
Designers: Karin Fong, Michelle Dougherty
Studio: Imaginary Forces

 

Clear History
Designer: Aaron Becker
Studio: Filmograph and Level 256 VFX

 

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Designers: Craig Kellman and Pete Oswald
Studio: Sony Pictures Animation and Screen Novelties

 

The Conjuring (view article)
Designer: Aaron Becker
Studio: Filmograph

 

The Glass Castle
Designers: Adrian Herr, Torben Stange

 

The Last of Us (view article)
Designers: Henry Hobson, Kevin Joelson
Studio: Bootmaker Films & Sony Creative SCEA

 

The Lego Movie  (view article)
Designer: Brian Mah
Studio: Alma Mater

 

Masters of Sex (view article)
Art Director: Leanne Dare
Studio: Elastic

 

Motion 2013
Designer: Alberto Scirocco
Studio: leftchannel

 

Pacific Rim (view article)
Designer: Miguel Lee
Studio: Imaginary Forces

 

Ping Pong Summer (view article)
Designer: Teddy Blanks
Studio: CHIPS

 

Salty Toons
Designer: Peter Ahern
Studio: Peter Ahern Productions

 

Semi-Permanent Portland 2013 (view article)
Designer: Danny Yount

 

True Detective (view article)
Designer: Patrick Clair
Studio: Elastic

 

Uneasy Lies the Mind
Designer: Ricky Fosheim
Studio: Detention Films

 

La Vraie Vie Des Profs (view article)
Designers: Alexis Beaumont, Michel Pecqueur