SXSW Design Awards
We're delighted to once again host the SXSW Film Design Awards and poster gallery, presented by iStockPhoto in association with AIGA Austin.
Jury and Audience Awards will be presented for Excellence in Poster Design and Excellence in Title Design. This year's ceremony is presented by Veam and takes place Tuesday, March 13 at 8pm in the Vimeo Theater. Add it to your schedule here. 2012 Film Title Design Finalists are listed below, but to see them all on screen, be sure to check out the Title Design Finalists Screening, Monday, March 12, 7pm in the Vimeo Theater. Watch this space for details of the Poster Award nominees!
2012 Excellence in Title Design Finalists:
205 - Zimmer der Angst
Director: Rainer Matsutani
Title Design by weareflink/weareflink GmbH
What happened in Room 205? Why has no one lived there for over a year? Katrin couldn't care less: the 19-year-old student has landed a room in the dorm, and that means freedom! Freedom from home and her over-protective father. The semester is just beginning, and it's time to make new friends, go to parties, have sex, and, of course, go to classes. Then, strange things happen in her room, and she begins to understand why no one wanted to move into Room 205 before.
The Adventures of TinTin (Unofficial)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Title Design by James Curan
After discovering directions to a sunken ship commanded by Captain Haddock's ancestor, Tintin and his friends decide to go on a treasure hunt.
American Horror Story
Director: Ryan Murphy
Title Design by Kyle Cooper/Prologue Films
A family of three move from Boston to Los Angeles as a means of reconciling their past anguish. They move to a restored mansion, unaware that the home is haunted.
Les Bleus de Ramville
Director: Derek Diorio
Title Design by Jay Bond/Oily Film Company Inc.
Les Bleus de Ramville follows the members of a small but fanatical senior hockey team's fan club. For Gordie, Julie, Maureen, and Christian, the fan club represents more than just a promotional tool for the Ramville's hockey team. It's their passion – their way of life.
Boss
Director: Gus Van Sant
Title Design by Angus Wall/Elastic
The series follows Tom Kane, the mayor of Chicago, who has recently been diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disorder. Determined to remain in charge, Kane conceals the disease from everyone around him except his own physician, Dr. Ella Harris. Those around Kane are too busy with their own lives to notice anything unusual. Kane's daughter, Emma, is the only one who suspects that something is wrong with her father. But does she know enough to uncover his secret and what will it mean for his political career?
Bunraku
Director: Guy Moshe
Title Design by Guilherme Marcondes/Hornet Inc.
A young drifter's quest for revenge leads him into a bigger fight than he expected.
Eva
Director: Kike Maíllo
Title Design by Dvein
It's 2041. Alex, a brilliant and irreverent machine designer, returns to his hometown to complete an unfinished project: create a boy robot. There he reunites with Lana, his old love, now married to his brother David. Eva, David and Lana’s daughter, winds up captivating Alex, who uses her as a model for his daring project.
Game of Thrones
Director: Angus Wall
Title Design by Rob Feng/Elastic
The series closely follows the multiple storylines of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, and author Martin has stated that the show's pilot script was very faithful to his work. Set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, Game of Thrones chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among the kingdom's noble families for control of the Iron Throne; as the series opens, additional threats from the snow and ice covered region north of Westeros and from the eastern continent across a narrow sea are simultaneously beginning to rise.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Director: David Fincher
Title Design by Tim Miller/Blur Studio
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 English-language thriller film directed by David Fincher, written by Steven Zaillian from the novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. The film stars Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander and tells the story of a man's mission to find out what has happened to a girl who has been missing for 40 years, and who may have been murdered. The film is nominated for five Academy Awards, including one for Rooney Mara for Best Actress.
Hell on Wheels
Director: Various
Title Design by Mark Gardner & Jeremy Cox/Imaginary Forces
AMC's new original series, Hell on Wheels, tells the compelling story of the construction of the Union Pacific railroad across America… a process that irrevocably changed our nation.
Hephaestus
Director: Alexander Curtis
Title Design by Eric Dies
Hephaestus is an outdated, aging soldier. He was built to destroy, but he has found a new purpose in the care and protection of a young girl, Kaylee.
Herbst
Directors: Florian Eidenhammer & Patrick Gündera
Title Design by Clemens Wirth/Clemens Wirth Motion Design
First World War Drama about love, friendship and loyalty.
A History Of The Title Sequence
Director: Jurjen Versteeg
Title Design by Jurjen Versteeg/Synple
This title shows a history of the title sequence in a nutshell. The sequence includes all the names of title designers who had a revolutionary impact on the history and evolution of the title sequence. The names of the title designers all refer to specific characteristics of the revolutionary titles that they designed.
Magic Trip
Director: Alex Gibney / Alison Ellwood
Title Design by Karin Fong/Imaginary Forces
At the advent of the psychedelic 60's, Ken Kesey took an LSD–fueled bus trip with his friends the Band of Merry Pranksters and caught the whole thing on film. Magic Trip documents this wild ride that defined the 60's counter-cultural revolution.
The New Girl
Director: John Priday
Title Design by Veva Burns/Framework Studio
After a bad break-up, Jess, an offbeat young woman, moves into an apartment loft with three single men. Although they find her behavior very unusual, the men support her - most of the time.
Shameless
Director: John Wells
Title Design by Erin Sarofsky/Sarofsky Corp.
"Shameless" Showtime Original Series that revolves around a loving, but dysfunctional, south-side Chicago, lower middle class family. Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy) is the proud single father of six kids… However, his excessive drinking and minimal financial contributions to the family put the majority of the caretaking responsibilities on Fiona (Emmy Rossum), the oldest sister.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Director: Guy Ritchie
Title Design by Danny Yount/Prologue Films
Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty.
La Última Muerte
Director: David "Leche" Ruíz
Title Design by Maribel Martínez/diecinueve36
Dr. Alexanderson finds an unconscious young man by the doorstep of his cabin. He will try to piece together the mans broken memory without knowing the dangers his family and friends will be exposed to in this psychological revenge thriller.
Wer rettet Dina Foxx?
Director: Max Zeitler
Title Design by weareflink/weareflink GmbH
This TV thriller kick starts the cross-media event "Rescue Dina Foxx!", which combines TV and internet to highlight the dangers of digital identity theft. The film introduces the story of Dina who is arrested for murder but claims her world has been manipulated by a digital doppelganger.
X-Men: First Class
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Title Design by Simon Clowes/Prologue Films
In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start world war III.
The winners will be announced during the SXSW Film AwardsTuesday, March 13th, 2012 at 8pm in the Vimeo Theater.
Image of the 2011 Film Poster Gallery by J.W. Walthall
