Graphic Design King of Cinema
Saul Bass was an Oscar awarding wining American graphic designer who brought to film some of the most striking, original and captivating title sequences and film posters. He was a visionary. In the time where the opening and ending credits where just as important as the film, Saul Bass stepped outside the box and created masterpieces. In his 40 year career he worked with some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. His most famous visuals are the animated paper cut out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm , the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high angle shot of a skyscraper in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho. Bass became widely known in the film industry after creating the title sequence for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). The film ...