Saul Bass

Saul Bass was born on the 8th of May 1920 in new York and was an American graphics designer and a Academy Award-winning filmmaker but he is best known for his design on animated motion pictures title sequences. He studied at the Art Students League in New York and Brooklyn College

His most famous title sequence was for the ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’ with a animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm and text racing up and down.
Bass also designed the eye catching 6th AT&T Bell System logo. He also designed Continental airlines1968 "jetstream" logo, which became the most recognized airline industry logo of the 1970s.
Bass died on the 25th of April, 1996.

This is a personal favourite Saul Bass poster of mine. I particularly like the jaggered edges of the boxes framing the poster and the surreal arm. The photographs of the actors/actresses are effective and not overpowering drawing the eye away like they would if it was in colour. These colours also reflect the lettering, again keeping a minimum of colour usage. Bass uses the same style writing for the title as the other two example of posters. Again making sharp and bold with block colour

This is an interesting film poster as it is two halves. The top half advertises the name of the film with a body in many parts suggeseting death. The bottom half advertises the names of the main people involved like actors in a more readable font. It's effective with the use of 3 colours as it doesn't cause distaction. The font of the title of the film is uneven and also jaggered on the jaggered body.





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The main focus on this poster is the sprial in the center framing the figure in the middle. This relates to the title of the film, 'Vertigo' as vertigo is often dizziness. The typical font is used for the title and improtant names. Also the man in the middle is more bold that the outline of the woman he is dancing with suggesting a main part is going to me a male. Again a limited amount of colour is used so it's not overpowering.




































This is my Saul Bass inspired movie poster for the film Role
Models. I took inspiration from his sharp cut figures and square edged lettering producing a craft knife cut out collage.