Saturday, July 12, 2008

Saul Bass


Saul Bass (May 8, 1920—April 25, 1996) was a graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences, which is thought of as the best such work ever seen.
During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Amongst his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the text racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the United Nations building in
Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text
that raced together and was pulled apart for Psycho.


Poster for The Man With the Golden Arm, 1955
Directed by Otto Preminger
Saul Bass

SOURCES: wikipedia, DesignMuseum, SaulBass.tv

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