Dan Perri

At the age of twelve Perri set up a small sign painting business on Long Island, selling signage to local stores, markets bars and restaurants.

[1] Perri made contact with the film graphics designer Saul Bass and began to pester him for work at his studio on Sunset Boulevard.

[1] After serving in the navy, Perri went to work with Cinefx alongside Phill Norman, Wayne Fitzgerald Don Record, and a former school friend, Steve Smith.

Perri produced an unusual, kitschy sequence inspired by low-budget K-Tel Records television commercials, complete with a loud, brash voiceover by Johnny Grant.

Unusually in filmmaking, Spielberg carried enough influence to maintain creative control over the film's branding, and asked Perri to design the entire advertising campaign for Close Encounters based on his logo.

[3] Possibly Perri's best-known title sequence project came about in 1976 when his friend James Nelson was working on post-production for a new space fantasy film, Star Wars.

[5][1] Perri also designed a logotype, consisting of block-capital letters filled with stars and skewed towards a vanishing point to follow the same perspective as the opening crawl.

This featured a strong red logotype which emphasised the maniacal quality of the lead character, introducing a film that was shot in black and white.

Suspiria First House on the Hill The Beaver In the Valley of Elah The House of Usher The Aviator Gangs of New York Mulholland Falls Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit The Rescuers Down Under RoboCop 2 Falcon Crest Lord of the Flies Midnight Run Wall Street La Bamba Raising Arizona A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Platoon The Color of Money Tough Guys Saturday Night Live Wise Guys 9½ Weeks White Nights A Nightmare on Elm Street An Officer and a Gentleman Raging Bull Airplane!