Saul Bass

Saul Bass  "Design is thinking made visible."

May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996

Saul Bass is a native New Yorker that moved to California in his 20's to pursue graphic design. Bass was a print design and a designer for movie picture title sequences, film posters and logos for prominent corporations. In his illustrious 40 year career he has worked with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and the more known Martin Scorsese.

Bass attended part time at the Art Student league in Manhattan prior to taking night classes with Gyorgy Kepes at Brooklyn College. In the 1940s he began working in hollywood; where Otto Preminger and he collaborated to design movie posters for the 1954 film Carmen Jones.

Bell System, AT&T,General Foods, United Airlines,Avery International, Continental Airlines, Celanese, United Way,Rockwell International, Minolta,Girl Scouts of the USA, Lawry's Foods, Dixie, Quaker Oats,Frontier Airlines, Alcoa, Warner Communications, and Fuller Paints

In 1995 he got a backhanded tribute he deemed as artistic theft from Spike Lee who was said to be paying homage to Bass.

A few movies Bass has worked on:

Carmen Jones (1954) The Big Knife (1955) The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) The Racers (1955) Vertigo (1958) The Big Country (1958) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Psycho (1960) Spartacus (1960) Exodus (1960) Ocean's 11 (1960) West Side Story (1961) Big (1988) The War of the Roses (1989) Goodfellas (1990) Cape Fear (1991) Doc Hollywood (1991) Mr. Saturday Night (1992) The Age of Innocence (1993) Higher Learning (1995) Casino (1995)