Susan Bradley Title Designer

In a PBS short Susan Bradley comments on the influence of her honest respect for typography and its use in film title sequences.

Watch Susan Bradley; Title Designer - Pixar on PBS. See more from INTERVIEW.

Susan Bradley's Film Titling Contributions
yup... she is pretty prolific.

(Here is just a short list as seen on her website)
http://www.susan-bradley.com/film.htm


WALL-E Andrew Stanton, Pixar
(Academy Award: 2009 Best Animated Feature)
LA LUNA Enrico Casarosa, Pixar
CARS 2 John Lasseter, Pixar
INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC: Creating the Impossible Leslie Iwerks, Starz
WINSTON CHURCHILL: Walking with Destiny Richard Trank, Moriah Films
TOY STORY 3 Lee Unkrich, Pixar
(Academy Award: 2011 Best Animated Feature/Original Song)
DIRTY OIL Leslie Iwerks, Babelgum Productions
UP Pete Docter, Pixar
(Academy Award: 2010 Best Animated Feature/Best Score)
BURN-E Angus MacLane, Pixar
THE PIXAR STORY Leslie Iwerks, WD Studios Motion Pictures
RATATOUILLE (Production Graphic Design/Title Design) Brad Bird, Pixar
(Academy Award: 2008 Best Animated Feature)
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH Davis Guggenheim, Participant Productions/Paramount
(Academy Award: 2006 Best Feature Doc)
THE MATADOR Richard Shepard/Pierce Brosnan, Irish Dreamtime/Miramax
NUMB3RS (TV: Production Graphics/Efx Animation-SeasonOne)
Ridley & Tony Scott and Brooke Kennedy, CBS
TWO FOR THE MONEY D.J. Caruso, Morgan Creek/Universal
DARK WATER Walter Salles, Touchstone
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES Walter Salles, Focus Features/Universal
(BAFTA: 2005 Best Foreign Feature, 3 Cannes Awards: 2004)
OUT OF TIME Carl Franklin, MGM
MONSTERS, INC. Pete Docter & David Silverman, Pixar
THE FIRST YEAR Davis Guggenheim, The Getty/PBS
FOR THE BIRDS Ralph Eggleston, Pixar 
(Academy Award: 2002 Best Animated Short)
AMERICAN HIGH R.J. Cutler, Fox Television
EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE Mark Dindal & Randy Fullmer, Disney
THE BLUE DINER Jan Egleson & Natatcha Estebanez, Independent
TOY STORY 2 John Lasseter, Pixar
GOSSIP Davis Guggenheim, Warner Bros.
RUNAWAY BRIDE Garry Marshall, Paramount/Touchstone
THE BIG KAHUNA John 
MURDER IN THE FIRST Marc Rocco, Warner Bros.
QUIZ SHOW Robert Redford, Hollywood Pictures
THE LION KING Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, Disney
REALITY BITES Ben Stiller, Universal
THE THING CALLED LOVE Peter Bogdanovich, Paramount







Ratatouille: 2008 Graphic Design

Susan Bradley has a wealth of experience in title design, graphics and direction in the movie industry. She was manager of Walt Disney Studios’ Title Graphics Department for six years before moving on to design titles for a number of live action films. In 2006 she teamed up with the Pixar gang and was involved in their animated success, Ratatouille.

Susan Bradley was responsible for designing a custom typeface for the Beginning and End credits on Ratatouille.



The hand-drawn cursive in the beginning credits was a variation on some sketches from field studies in Paris.







The serif typography in the end cards was rendered in pencil inspired by a slab serif typeface Rockwell. Then images were scanned and re-painted in photoshop.
The Matador: 2005

Turns out that Bradley couldn’t show any blood in the bullfight footage. The bullfights were beautifully shot in Spain, but they are intense so that was a challenge.

 Producing this over the holidays Bradley found herself locked in the Studio with some eggnog for a week hammering away on this powerful sequence.











Bradley's Influences:

John Lasseter

Harold Adler: who trained Bradley in calligraphy also shared his hand-lettering and production experience with Saul Bass and Hitchcock.