The Angels & Demons Movie Set Visit
My Visit to the Set of Angels & Demons, Sept. 22-26 In May, the people at Sony asked me to create some new ambigrams for the Angels & Demons movie that was being filmed this summer. I'd love to show them here, but they're under wraps until the movie opens in May of ’09. But I can show you the ambigram they requested to identify the table where Tom Hanks relaxes between takes, an A&D official Sony Pictures bike, and a couple of other snaps.
As the ambigram reads the same from both directions (and is plural), I presume he shares the table with other actors.In the process of working on these projects, I was in touch with
the props master on the film. Trish invited me to visit the set, which I did for the week of Sept. 22-26. She could not have been a more wonderful host. Ron Howard was kind enough to take a few minutes out of his long and busy day to chat with me at some length about his work and mine and our mutual friend, Dan Brown. And without exception, every one of the film's support crew that I talked with was friendly and helpful.
I chatted briefly with Tom Hanks and gave him a print of this image that I had designed for him. It's not an ambigram, but a rather challenging crypto-symbolic icon that might take a real symbologist to unravel. Let me know if you can unscramble it.
Speaking of real symboligists, here's a photo of Maggie Macnab and me in a... um... parking lot in Los Angeles. Maggie's the author of a really excellent book on the symbolism of geometric shapes and numbers as expressed through logo design. I highly recommend Decoding Design. A resident of New Mexico, Maggie joined me for a couple of days in LA to watch the A&D filming, and to evaluate the mojitos and margaritas of southern California. (Gladstone's on the Pacific Coast Highway was the clear winner).Oh yeah, and here's the bike.