Saul Bass

                  Saul Bass

Saul Bass was a graphic designer and filmmaker, but best known for his geometric shapes design for title sequences and film poster. He also designs logo.

In most of his title sequences he aims to show a single message, which can be seen in West Side Story from the ‘lines’, which symbolise the city, it gives the audience the idea of what is going to happen in the movie.

Early Career

Saul Bass studied design at Art Students League in Manhattan, after this he took an apprenticeship with Manhattan design films and Bass worked as a freelance graphic designer afterwards. Saul worked together with his wife Elaine Bass for his career; they created some of the strongest graphic design film.

 Saul Bass began his career designing posters for films which imprisonment the atmosphere of a film with simple shape and images. This was done before the tile sequence was a big thing in film industry, could be easily experimented with.

Throughout his 40-year career Saul worked for some Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder and Martin Scorsese. He got famous in film industry after creating the title sequence for Otto Preminger’s ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’ in 1955. He also designed iconic corporate logos in North America, the original AT&T “bell” logo in 1969 and many others.

                  Saul Bass

Saul Bass was a graphic designer and filmmaker, but best known for his geometric shapes design for title sequences and film poster. He also designs logo.

In most of his title sequences he aims to show a single message, which can be seen in West Side Story from the ‘lines’, which symbolise the city, it gives the audience the idea of what is going to happen in the movie.

Early Career

Saul Bass studied design at Art Students League in Manhattan, after this he took an apprenticeship with Manhattan design films and Bass worked as a freelance graphic designer afterwards. Saul worked together with his wife Elaine Bass for his career; they created some of the strongest graphic design film.

 Saul Bass began his career designing posters for films which imprisonment the atmosphere of a film with simple shape and images. This was done before the tile sequence was a big thing in film industry, could be easily experimented with.

Throughout his 40-year career Saul worked for some Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder and Martin Scorsese. He got famous in film industry after creating the title sequence for Otto Preminger’s ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’ in 1955. He also designed iconic corporate logos in North America, the original AT&T “bell” logo in 1969 and many others.