Benjamin Tuttle on designing Beef season 2 titles and his Spectacle Theater roots

Graphic designer Benjamin Tuttle created the title and episode lettering for the second season of Netflix's Beef, an A24 anthology series set at a California country club. Under showrunner Lee Sung Jin's direction, Tuttle drew inspiration from 18th-century punchcutter Jacques François Rosart, Bill Gold's lettering for Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, and newspaper typefaces like Monotype Plantin. The main title's 'B' features a bougie ball terminal, contrasting with season one's bold vertical font. For episode titles, Tuttle designed 'Old Feller,' a revival of Double Pica Roman attributed to Peter de Walpergen, originally cut for John Fell at Oxford University Press. The Vandivision team, led by Dylan Vanderberg, applied deteriorating textures to the type across episodes, with episode eight being the most distressed. Tuttle's career was shaped by his volunteer work designing posters for Spectacle Theater, a Brooklyn microcinema seating 35, where he experimented freely. His connection to Beef came through director Aaron Schimberg and producer Vanessa McDonnell, former Spectacle volunteers, after Tuttle worked on Schimberg's A Different Man for A24. Tuttle also created a 2019 illustration for Shira Inbar's Separated-Separados project, depicting an ICE agent being pulled apart, which remains relevant today.