Yes, the design industry owes a great debt to the vision of Saul Bass, but we must not forget that his vision, too, belonged and wouldn't have existed without his creative muse and better half, Elaine.

My approach to Pétanque’s title design, done by hand with crayon on paper, was also heavily inspired by Pablo Ferrro’s design for Stanley Kubrick’s movie ‘Dr. Strangelove’, which explored a similar theme, the Cold War.