Dan Perri

Daniel Richard Perri (born August 11, 1945) is a film and television title sequence designer. He has worked in film title design since the 1970s, and has been responsible for the main titles of a number of notable films including The Exorcist (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Star Wars (1977), Raging Bull (1980), Airplane! (1980), and Suspiria (2018).

Dan Perri was born in New York on August 11, 1945. In 1949 his family moved to Los Angeles to be close to his father's parents, but his mother was unhappy there. Over the next few years Perri's family moved back and forth between LA and New York. Eventually his parents divorced and the young Dan stayed with his mother, who was an artist and encouraged his talent. 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.At school, Perri's talents were fostered by his art teacher, Barbara Brooks, a former Madison Avenue advertising agency art director who had moved into teaching. She encouraged him to read books, design manuals, and various advertising industry publications such as Graphis publications and Communication Arts magazine. After leaving school in 1963, Perri served a short apprenticeship at Hixson & Jorgensen, an advertising agency on Wilshire Boulevard in LA. Around 1964 he went to study at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena for a year and a half, before dropping out and going to a local college. Around this time, he started to design graphics for local businesses and album covers for small record companies.