3. Saul was born in the Bronx in the 1920s.
He studied part time at the Art Students League and eventually started taking night
art classes at Brooklyn College.
There he
studied under
GyorgyKepes,
a renowned
Bauhaus
designer
from
Hungary.
Kepes
“Juliet’s Shadow Caged” – A
photo by Kepes
4. BASS MOVED WEST TO HOLLYWOOD.
AFTER WORKING IN
ADVERTISING FOR SEVERAL YEARS, BASS WAS HIRED BY
DIRECTOR OTTO
PREMINGER TO DEISGN A POSTER FOR HIS 1954 MOVIE,
“CARMEN JONES”.
PREMINGER WAS
SO IMPRESSED BY THE
POSTER HE ASKED BASS
TO CREATE THE FILM‟S OPENING
SEQUENCE AS WELL.
5. BASS BECAME KNOWN ACROSS THE INDUSTRY AFTER
DESIGNED THE OPENING FOR ANOTHER PREMINGER FILM,
“THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS76whmt5Yc
6. BASS ENTERED THE WORLD OF FILM AND BECAME A POSTER
DESIGNER FOR MOVIE
LEGENDS LIKE ALFRED HITCHOCK AND STANLEY KUBRICK.
7.
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnG3OjIcN
8M
“For the average audience, the credits tell them there‟s only three minutes left to
eat popcorn. I take this „dead‟ period and try to do more than simply get rid of
names that filmgoers aren‟t interested in. I aim to set up the audience for what‟s
coming..” - Saul Bass
9. IN ADDITION TO THE MOVIE WORK, BASS ALSO IS
RECONIZED FOR HIS WORK IN LOGO DESIGN. MANY OF
HIS DESIGNS ARE STILL USED TODAY.
