Public Enemies ...more...

Turns out Michael Mann, the Director of 'Public Enemies' which gets released this week, is a control freak perfectionist in every area of crafting a movie..... that's a compliment by the way.

To get the type face of the title just right, Mann commissioned a special font from Neville Brody who says:

"Michael Mann understands the power of a good title sequence and always commissions his own. For Public Enemies, he wanted a font that evoked the Depression era, so I got inspiration from publicity posters for Roosevelt's New Deal initiative, which promoted economic relief after the 1929 Wall Street collapse. They're designed in a very constructivist, Soviet, communist style. My font is very solid, clearly masculine, immovable, and it has some very specifically naive details, like the way the horizontal strokes are all slightly too wide – we've taken out the optical correction. And if you look at the 'B' you'll see that the holes in the middle are a little bit too small – they look like bullet holes – which is very apt."

Typography is a fantastic area of design - for people like me who can't draw, it's one of only areas of design! - and it's great to see thought being given to every last detail of the film. Bodes well for Wednesday.