Watch the Titles: Manhunt – The Search For Bin Laden

Raw data is not designed. The CIA analysts who tracked down Bin Laden navigated thousands of spreadsheets and documents filled with words, numbers, and coordinates, to which they added countless scribbled notes. For the HBO doc Manhunt, Creative Director Manija Emran and her team at The Mill+ delivered more than 10 minutes of meticulously researched, typography-based sequences that reflect that long and painstaking process of finding the world’s most wanted man. Emran, for whom this was a very personal project takes us through the design process.

“I became really paranoid that when I was flying I would get stopped with my bag and computer filled with Bin Laden info and research! Tricky to explain, “no officer it’s for a title sequence.”