Although I featured several of Iaia’s works in my post on “Un Uomo Da Rispettare” as part of the ongoing Morricone Collection series, I felt the artist deserved his own spotlight. He has created some iconic posters for film like Bernardo Bertolluci’s “The Conformist,”Iaia is hardly a household name. He should be considered Italy’s equal to Drew Struzan.
But I’ll let these personal favourites from among his many stunning illustrations to speak for themselves:
As Bjorn and I were preparing to launch the first season of our new podcast, The Filmography, where we planned to take a deep dive, chronologically, into the entire back catalogues of our favourite directors, it suddenly dawned on us that we were going to need a logo, which was something beyond our particular skill sets. Fortunately, Bjorn had a graphic designer friend, Alex Boucher, who came to our rescue!
Bjorn and I wanted something that conjured up the feeling of the old studios of 1970s New Hollywood (especially the old Warner Bros. logo), in keeping with our subject for Season I, the Godfather of that era himself, Mr. Francis Ford Coppola.
With only that minimal direction to work from, Alex created a logo that far exceeded our expectations. I only wish we were launching a studio rather than a podcast so that the venture would be worthy of Alex’s excellent design!
In addition to the motion graphic and logo above, Alex created several variations for us to use with different backgrounds on social media, or in the new video podcast episodes we have planned (more on that in a future post).
Having such a dynamic graphic design to represent our podcast played no small part in Bjorn and I having the confidence to actually release it into the world.
We knew this image was going to be how most people would first interact with our podcast. So, it had to feel like us, and like our vision for the show, which was something we were still figuring out as we prepared to publish that first episode. Now more than 50 episodes later, hard at work on our third season (director reveal coming soon!) we are still so grateful to Alex for creating something that we are very proud to have as the face of a project that has come to mean a great deal to both of us. As we slowly grow our audience, we know that Alex’s design presents us and our show in the best light imaginable.
It is with that gratitude that I thought it only appropriate to write this appreciation post, to introduce you to the artist behind the design, feature a few examples of her other work, and when you inevitably want to see more, point you in the right direction.
View Alex’s other work and case studies on her website here:
Check out an example of Alex’s case studies here:
See the Motion Advertisement for King of the Canal here:
Watch an animated western short created with Procreate and After Effects here:
Follow her on Instagram here:
Listen to The Filmography podcast on Spotify (with the link below), Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes streaming every Friday.