Who is Saul Bass?
In
1920s Bronx, Bass was born and so began the a future of impacting design and
graphical genius. It all started just 16 years after his birth when he received
a scholarship to the Art Students League (Independent Art School in New York)
in 1936, and studied at Brooklyn College between 1944 and 1946, where he became
influenced by the Art Style of Gyorgy Kepes and Russian Constructivist Typography(click here) as well as the Bauhaus Design Theory. Whilst in education, he
worked as a commercial artist for advertising agencies and companies, one big
name included Warner Bros and despite moving to LA in 1946, he carried on as a
commercial artist and in 1952, he founded his own practise. The practise was
later registered as Saul Bass & Associates in 1955. The year of 1954
brought forth a huge change in Bass’s career when he was commissioned by film
director Otto Preminger to create the title
sequence for his new film, Carmen Jones:
Whilst still working as a commercial artist for many high class clients, he worked on a series of other title sequences for very famous films such as:
Carmen Jones - Saul's first sequence
Whilst still working as a commercial artist for many high class clients, he worked on a series of other title sequences for very famous films such as:
Vertigo
(Write about vertigo)
Psycho
The Shining
Goodfellas
Cape Fear
Bass carried on making logos, commercial art and
Title Sequences up until his death in 1996.
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