When it comes to design, there really isn't much greater of an example for me than Stanley Kubrick. Even though he is a filmmaker, each one of his films is a uniquely different style among itself. Personally, I believe 2001: A Space Odyssey is his greatest design achievement. It combines so many stunning visuals and other worldly designs to encompass how the atmosphere as we know it would look like in the year 2001. That is the thing I love about Kubrick is that he has such a vivid and specific vision that he can't help but make everything exactly as he has imagined it. Employing this tactic makes it so that he never made the same film twice, he was completely original each and every time. But it is 2001's style that I enjoy the most, it is so sleek and smooth, it makes you believe that you have been transported to the future where computers are more dangerous than the humans that operate them. He never ceased to amaze me at how extremely resourceful and visually intuitive he could be with films. After all, I doubt many people could think of turning a red LED light under glass into the symbol of the film's antagonist and make it as effective as it was.
9.15.2009
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