Comments on: Book Review: Uncredited

By: submarinechannel

submarinechannel — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:06:49 +0000

I think the book has two or more publishers.

It’s available from BIS Publishers, a Dutch publishing house that specialises in high quality design publications. They have an online store, but it’s expensive I guess, 55 euros: http://www.bispublishers.nl/shop.php
Although worth it if you’re intested in film title design or the history of motion graphic design.

I think this is an excellent book, a one-of-a-kind. The perspective of the authors tends to be quite academic at times, but I don’t see that as a problem. Unlike Cindywan, I do not think that the history of film titles is boring at all. Quite the opposite. This book is an invaluable resource and the authors have done an amazing job researching the history of film title design.

I do think that the images in the book are a bit dark sometimes and I do agree that the quicktimes are too small. But hey, there’s always my project on SubmarineChannel called Forget the Film, Watch the Titles, if you want to see examples of great title design.

By: cindywan

cindywan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:55:30 +0000

I’ve had this book for over a year now. I live in Hong Kong and got mine at the Page One bookstore (this particular copy being a reprint by Page One Publishing in Singapore). The DVD is a bonus, but the QuickTime clips are small in size, and only a few of the title sequences written about in the book appear in the disc… The text is organised in a way that the book is a history (chronological) of film titles. Somehow I found the history of titles from a hundred years ago a bit boring, and the book would benefit from input by designers (famous or not) who are still alive, but there is very little of this. Overall, this volume wasn’t very expensive (I reckon the original European version is pricey) but I expected more. Good but not great. 7 out of 10.

By: ckdexterhaven

ckdexterhaven — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:34:07 +0000

This book is very hard to find. Everywhere I’ve looked online it’s “Out of Stock” or “Unavailable”, even now on the YWFT site. I had read somewhere that it’s publication was canceled but obviously there were a few copies floating around. It seems to be available in Europe but with the exchange rate… Ouch. I asked YWFT to email me when it’s available. Anyone seen it available elsewhere?

By: justin

justin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:49:37 +0000

My copy’s only a week old, but no warping has happened yet. I’ll keep an eye on it.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:59:18 +0000

The heavy ink on the paper stock this book is printed on has warped the pages on my copy making it difficult to flip through. Is this the case with anyone else’s copy? If so, I’ll send it back for an exchange… if not I can live with it though disappointed. The content is random, but great. Nice to see so many titles pre-2000. Yet to watch the dvd.