Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Star Wars funkified

Dear Jennifer,

Need some art combined with pop culture combined with conjecture? These two Youtube videos explore what the STAR WARS opening credits would look like if Saul Bass had done them.

You may recall Saul Bass as being the dude who made posters like this:


Well, some cool person on the internet did a "what if?" with STAR WARS and Saul Bass. If Saul Bass had done the opening titles of STAR WARS, they would have (maybe) looked like this:



Even awesomer is how an even cooler person on the internet did a mockup of how the credits would have looked on the REDUX of STAR WARS. Check out the change to Harrison Ford's introduction, and the final, explosively amazing, image. Well pontificated.

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