Joe Caroff, the unheralded graphic designer whose iconic creations included James Bond ‘s 007 gun logo, posters for West Side Story and A Hard Day’s Night and typography for Last Tango in Paris , Rollerball and Manhattan , died Sunday. He was 103.
Caroff died in hospice care at his home in Manhattan, his sons, Peter and Michael Caroff, told The New York Times .
Caroff also cooked up the opening title sequences for such films as Richard Attenborough’s A Bridge Too Far (1977), Volker Schlöndorff’s Death of a Salesman (1985), Gene Saks’ Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986) and Martin Scorsese ‘s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which pulled back to reveal a crown of thorns .
Joe Caroff, the unheralded graphic designer whose iconic creations included