The great Saul Bass—to my mind the greatest graphic designer of the 20th century—was born 100 years ago today, on May 8, 1920. In over a decade of writing about movie posters I’ve only really written about Bass once—in an article about the evolution of designs for Vertigo—which is surprising because he was undoubtedly the first poster designer I ever knew the name of, and of the six movie posters hanging in my apartment two are by Bass: those for Seconds and The Man With the Golden Arm. Saul Bass is just too well known, and has been written about so widely, that I never felt I had much to add to the discussion. And when Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham’s extraordinary Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design was published in 2011 there seemed little more left to say.But I can’t let this centenary pass unremarked.
- 5/21/2020
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From Ian Albinson, editor of Art of the Title: "To celebrate the release of the long-awaited book Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design, I put together a brief visual history of some of Saul Bass's most celebrated work."
Update: Tomorrow, MoMA presents an evening devoted to the book with presentations by Kyle Cooper, Chip Kidd and co-author of the book, Pat Kirkham. "This special event features the New York premiere of Saul and Elaine Bass's Academy Award-winning short Why Man Creates (1968), newly preserved by the Academy Film Archive, as well as a rich selection of title sequences, commercials, and corporate campaigns."
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Update: Tomorrow, MoMA presents an evening devoted to the book with presentations by Kyle Cooper, Chip Kidd and co-author of the book, Pat Kirkham. "This special event features the New York premiere of Saul and Elaine Bass's Academy Award-winning short Why Man Creates (1968), newly preserved by the Academy Film Archive, as well as a rich selection of title sequences, commercials, and corporate campaigns."
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- 11/13/2011
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