“I'm waiting for the dog to die so I can shoot myself.” — Olive Kitteridge
To quote American designer Charles Eames: “The details are not the details.”
It’s just so in the leisurely opening to Olive Kitteridge, HBO’s 4-part miniseries about a woman unravelling in a picture-perfect small town tucked away in New England. This impressionistic sequence takes its time, following in the footsteps of title sequences to shows like Six Feet Under and Dexter, allowing the items and small rituals on display to tell their stories with grace and stoic aplomb. What first appears to be snow, falling starkly against a dark background to melancholy music by composer Carter Burwell, is confectioner’s sugar on a doughnut — the sweet delightfully mixed in with the sour. Then follow pills in the shape of a flower, an embroidered heart leaking, the stain from a drink peering out from itself, stockinged feet in the garden, a landscape becoming wallpaper. The audience is invited to continuously ask: Who is Olive, among these small things?
Nominated for a 2015 Emmy in Outstanding Main Title Design.
A discussion with Designer and Art Director SYNDERELA PENG, former designer with yU+co, current creative director at FX Networks.
Before we start talking about Olive Kitteridge, I thought maybe we could get a little background. Where did you start out? How did you get into motion design?
SP: So, I studied illustration at Art Center and then I worked for like a year, two years, and then decided I wanted to – I needed to learn more typography so I went back to school. I went through the program at CalArts for their design masters. I had known Garson Yu…
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