Saul Bass Research

                
 Background Information

Saul Bass was born in May 8, 1920, he was a Jewish-American graphic designer and filmmaker, who is best known for his design of motion picture title sequences. He was a Bronx- born graphic designer who took his New York style to California and became famous for his work in film and classic logo design. He studied in New York at the Art Students’ League as a teenager and developed a unique style that is both recognizable and memorable today. During his career he worked for some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese.

How he started out.

Saul Bass was best known for his work in film But He started out in the industry doing poster design, first hired by director and producer Otto Preminger. He had an strange ability to capture the mood of a film with simple shapes and images, much like his other work. He would go on to work with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorcese and design classic posters for movies such as The Man with the Golden Arm whose poster and film and have written about also West Side Story, The Shining, Exodus, and North by Northwest which i have also explain a little about the film.

Some of his most famous work

Some of his most famous works are the title sequences for such classic films as The Man with the Golden Arm which he filmed in 1955 where he used cut ups of paper instead of using and actors, this was in effective in a way because it would get you in the mood for the type of film which was about to be screened another great film was North by Northwest which was in 1959, and Psycho which was in 1960. Bass used his innovative ideas and unique perspective of the world to influence his art, engaging his audiences and developing the graphic design industry in the process. Hitchcock's famous shower-murder scene in Psycho owes its success to the design work of Bass' storyboards.

                                                          

The Man with the Golden Arm which he filmed in 1955 was about strung-out junkie deals with daily demoralizing drug addiction while crippled wife and card sharks continue to pull him down.

North by Northwest which was in 1959 is about a hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

Psycho which was filmed in 1960 is about a phoenix secretary who steals $40,000 from her employer's client then she goes on the run and checks into a remote motel which is run by a young man under the domination of his mother.