Saul Bass

Logos and Posters and Motion, Oh My!

Corie Kupferberg | Honors Assignment Fall 2011 | New Media Design III

Design is thinking made visual.

A Bronx Tale

Fruit stalls & Storefronts

Art Students League

G. Kepes and the ADC

Hollywood

Television

The Frank Sinatra Show, ABC, opening (1957)

Playhouse 90, CBS, opening (1956)

The Kid, RCA (1968)

Baby Magic, Mennen (1962)

History of Invention, IBM (1962)

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1964)

Bridgestone Tires (1963)

Print Design

Love in the AfternoonDirected by Billy WilderJune 30, 1957

West Side StoryDirected by Jerome Robbins & Robert WiseOctober 18, 1961

The ShiningDirected by Stanley KubrickMay 23, 1980

Carmen JonesDirected by Otto PremingerOctober 28, 1954

Title Sequences

Where it all began.

Otto Preminger+Carmen Jones+Saul Bass+Movie Poster=The first of many title sequence designs

The Man With the Golden ArmDirected by Otto PremingerFebruary 12, 1955

Directors and producers began to notice.

Saul Bass was the best of the best.

Ocean’s 11Directed by Lewis MilestoneFebruary 12, 1955

North by NorthwestDirected by Alfred HitchcockJuly 28, 1959

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldDirected by Stanley KramerNovember 7, 1963

Vertigo (1958)

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

West Side Story (1961)

Psycho (1960)

Exodus (1960)

Spartacus (1960)

Grand Prix (1966)

The War of the Roses (1989)

Big (1988)

Cape Fear (1991)

Doc Hollywood (1991)

Casino (1995)

The Age of Innocence (1993)

GoodFellas (1990)

First impressions are everything.

Retired? I may as well go into deep freeze. There’s too much fun. I love what I do. There’s nothing I don’t like. I work hard. It’s my life. It’s what I do. I find it fascinating.

- Saul Bass

Saul BassA Life in Film & Design

by Jennifer Bass, Pat Kirkham

6 Chapters in Design: Bass, Chermayeff, Glaser, Rand, Tanaka, Tomaszewski

by Philip B. Meggs

Thank you