Press

Press

Writing, interviews, quotes, radio, podcasts, books

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Selected Writing 

Featured
Setting the stage: Should there be an Oscar for title design?
Setting the stage: Should there be an Oscar for title design?

For It’s Nice That, I spoke with the graphic designers behind the title design and posters for some of the year’s biggest films, exploring the process and changing landscape for these creatives setting the tone of films

→ Read the article on It’s Nice That

Frames of Reference: The Art and Psychology of Movie Name-Drops
Frames of Reference: The Art and Psychology of Movie Name-Drops

For Letterboxd Journal, I wrote about the connection between viewer, art and history when movies reference each other. How does it work, what's being referenced, and why is it often so damn funny?

Featuring insight from Matt Johnson (director of BlackBerry), Penelope Spheeris (director of Wayne's World), Chandler Levack (director of I Like Movies), and Adam Nayman (author of Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks)

→ Read the essay on Letterboxd Journal

Interview: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, cult favourite star of The Bear, is living the sweet life
Interview: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, cult favourite star of The Bear, is living the sweet life

For Sharp Magazine, I chatted with The Bear star about work, life, and the sheer joy of cooking

→ Read more in Sharp Magazine

Profile: You’re Influenced by Film Title Designer Pablo Ferro and You Probably Don’t Even Know It
Profile: You’re Influenced by Film Title Designer Pablo Ferro and You Probably Don’t Even Know It

From Dr. Strangelove to Beetlejuice and Men in Black, Ferro’s exciting work spawned a generation of bold experimenters

→ Read more on AIGA's Eye on Design

Artist Kenneth Lavallee’s striking work, inspired by Indigenous community leader, transforms Toronto park
Artist Kenneth Lavallee’s striking work, inspired by Indigenous community leader, transforms Toronto park

For Designlines Magazine, I spoke with artist Kenneth Lavallee about creating art for Dr. Lillian McGregor Park and how this vital green space came to be

→ Read more in Designlines Magazine

Review: Dim the Fluorescents is a hilarious and poignant jaunt through the creative process
Review: Dim the Fluorescents is a hilarious and poignant jaunt through the creative process

“With his debut feature Dim the Fluorescents, Toronto filmmaker Daniel Warth has created an astonishing calling card – an earnest and entertaining celebration of process and performance, not to mention a tremendous showcase for two homegrown actors on the cusp of greatness.”

→ Read more on The Globe and Mail

Profile: Sally Cruikshank — A Career Retrospective
Profile: Sally Cruikshank — A Career Retrospective

“While Sally Cruikshank is not yet a household name, she is responsible for some of the most innovative animated works in American history. In embracing psychedelia, the infinite, and the possibilities of line, shape, and sound, she lays bare the bones of the medium. Her work shines in the obvious joy it takes in itself, in the sheer exuberance of animating.”

→ Read more about Sally Cruikshank

Feature: “Most of what follows is true.” A look at Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid through its opening titles
Feature: “Most of what follows is true.” A look at Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid through its opening titles

“As the sepia-toned newsreel acts out the story of real-life bank robbers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, we already feel the nostalgic hush of a legend long gone.”

→ Read more on Art of the Title

Feature: Learn about the spine-tingling opening to Hitchcock’s The Birds, a classic of horror cinema
Feature: Learn about the spine-tingling opening to Hitchcock’s The Birds, a classic of horror cinema

“The film’s title sequence is a cacophony of consonance, all shrieks and screams, flutters and flaps; a rush of mechanical bird noises scraping roughly through sheer space. […] The credits, executed in the blue of a perfect clear sky, are torn to pieces as if pecked apart.”

→ Read more on Art of the Title

Review: The Star’s take on the nativity of Jesus is mildly amusing but mostly boring
Review: The Star’s take on the nativity of Jesus is mildly amusing but mostly boring

“The Star, like Bo, is clumsy, derivative, mildly amusing and ultimately forgettable. Due to its targeted messaging and lacklustre execution, it's a far cry from recent animated stunners such as Frozen, Moana, Zootopia or Kubo and the Two Strings. The animation by Montreal-based Cinesite Animation Studios is solid but unimaginative, the shapes doughy and polished, like stones worn soft by sand, lending everything an overly sanitized appearance.”

→ Read more on The Globe and Mail

Video

I was invited to be part of the French documentary Les Génériques de séries (2018) produced by Canal+ and Empreinte Digitale. The feature-length film is an exploration of title sequence design in television, featuring interviews with David Chase (Th…

I was invited to be part of the French documentary Les Génériques de séries (2018) produced by Canal+ and Empreinte Digitale. The feature-length film is an exploration of title sequence design in television, featuring interviews with David Chase (The Wire), Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks), Pamela Adlon (Better Things), and others.

As part of its Oscars coverage, CBS Sunday Morning produced a special edition of its celebrated newsmagazine TV program about title sequence design in film. I spoke to Correspondent Lee Cowan about the art form and how it works in Toronto in Februar…

As part of its Oscars coverage, CBS Sunday Morning produced a special edition of its celebrated newsmagazine TV program about title sequence design in film. I spoke to Correspondent Lee Cowan about the art form and how it works in Toronto in February 2017.

Interviews & Quotes
 

💻 Print Magazine
Lola Landekic’s Favorite Opening Title Sequences of 2023
by Charlotte Beach / January 4, 2024

💻 Print Magazine
The Daily Heller: Deck the Walls With Halls of Titles
by Steven Heller / December 25, 2023

💻 Print Magazine
‘Art of the Title’ Curator Lola Landekic is Obsessed with Title Sequences—And You Should Be Too
by Charlotte Beach / July 27, 2023

💻 Inverse
“AI is a Tool.” The Problem With Secret Invasion is More Complicated Than You Think
by Dais Johnson / June 23, 2023

💻 BBC Culture
Clues hidden in The Last of Us credits
by Clare Thorp / February 7, 2023

💻 Adobe 99U
The Rise of the Typographic Flash Card in the Age of Binge-Worthy TV
by Madeleine Morley / September 17, 2019

📰 The Telegraph
Westeros, mapped: how the Game of Thrones title sequence was made
by Ed Power / March 26, 2019

📖 Variety
Title Designers Explain Techniques They Use to Draw Viewers Into Shows
by Calum Marsh / September 6, 2018

🎥 Documentary: Les Génériques de séries (or, Entitled) (2018)
Produced by Empreinte Digitale, Canal+
Directed by Olivier Joyard
Released April 11, 2018

📖 Communication Arts
Insights: Adding Elaine Bass’s Credit Back In
December 19, 2017

💻 The Verge
In the age of streaming TV, who needs title sequences?
by Lance Richardson / July 5, 2017

📖 GQ Australia
Why TV Titles Have Become So Damn Good
June 27, 2017

📰 NRC Handelsblad
Openingstitels van tv-series zijn een kunstvorm op zich
by Hans Klis / June 12, 2017

💻 Polygon
American Gods, Westworld and more have helped to redefine art on television
by Julia Alexander / April 24, 2017

🎥 Wired
How TV Opening Titles Got to Be So Damn Good
by Jason Tanz / March 23, 2017

🎥 CBS News
CBS Sunday Morning: Giving credit — The creators of movie title sequences
February 26, 2017

📰 The New York Times
‘Game of Thrones’ and the Era of Elaborate Opening Titles
by Daniel Victor / April 25, 2016

💻 Bannersnack
Design Talk with Lola Landekic
November 2, 2015

📖 Quill & Quire
Illustrator Lola Landekic on designing Lynn Crosbie’s Cobain–inspired book cover
by Sue Carter / May 4, 2015

📖 Creative Review
Welcome to the show
by Mark Sinclair / March 1, 2015

💻 Shutterstock
How to Illustrate for Magazines and Why You Should Draw Everyday
by Alexander Huls / December 17, 2014

📰 The Toronto Star
Appetizer-only dinner is a six-course flop
by Corey Mintz / February 13, 2014

📖 Maclean's
TV Title Fight: Short vs Long
Why Girls, Bates Motel and New Girl are going with minimal title sequences
by Jaime Weinman / January 15, 2013

Podcasts & Radio
 

The MatineeCast, Episode 197: A Quiet Place
A discussion of film, title sequence design, and John Krasinski's A Quiet Place with Ryan McNeil / April 9, 2018

Let's Scare Matthew Price to Death: American Psycho, with Lola Landekic
A discussion of Mary Harron's classic American Psycho with Matthew Price / December 10, 2017

Working File, Episode 15: Listener Questions
Answering listener questions about agencies, graphic design, and education with Kara Haupt / June 13, 2017

Working File, Episode 4: Making Something That's Missing
Talking side projects and making things, with Kristy Tillman / January 10, 2017

The Cinematologists, Episode 35: Gremlins (plus an interview with Lola Landekic)
Talking Art of the Title, and the aesthetics and meaning of title sequences / December 16, 2016

Books

 

AS COVER DESIGNER 

A Good Wife
by Samra Zafar
ISBN 9781443454865
Published 2019 by HarperCollins

The Art of Leaving
by Ayelet Tsabari
ISBN 9781443447867
Published 2019 by HarperCollins

Let That Sh*t Go
by Kate Petriw and Nina Purewal
ISBN 9781443457675
Published 2019 by Collins

Reckless Daughter
by David Yaffe
ISBN 9781443444828
Published 2018 by Harper Perennial

Radiant Shimmering Light
by Sarah Selecky
ISBN 9781443455671
Published 2018 by HarperCollins

Where Did You Sleep Last Night 
by Lynn Crosbie
ISBN 1770899316
Published 2015 by House of Anansi Press

 
 

AS LETTERING ARTIST 

5-Minute Basketball Stories
ISBN 9781443456722
by Sarah Howden, Nick Craine
Published 2018 by Collins

5-Minute Stories for Fearless Girls
ISBN 9781443455367
by Sarah Howden, Nick Craine
Published 2018 by Collins

AS CURATOR/WRITER

Graphic Design: Now In Production
ISBN 0935640983
Published 2011 by Walker Art Centre

AS FEATURED DESIGNER

Curvy 2
ISBN 0-9752136-1-X
Published 2005 by Yen Magazine

Curvy
ISBN 0-9752136-0-1
Published 2004 by Yen Magazine

Worldwide Designers 2007
ISBN 2-9516455-1-1
Published 2002 by L'Edition Populaire