Saul Bass was a graphic designer and filmmaker known for his title sequences and film posters. He created logos for major American companies and began working in Hollywood, creating title sequences for films by Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and others. Bass also worked as a visual consultant and storyboarded scenes, including the famous shower scene in Psycho. He later directed the documentary Why Man Creates, which won an Oscar. While stepping back from title sequences in later decades, Bass continued to influence other artists and his style was featured in the openings for Catch Me If You Can and Casino Royale.

1. Saul Bass

2. Who is Saul Bass?
 Saul Bass is a graphic designer and filmmaker.
 He was taught by Gyorgy Kepes who worked alongside Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and
together began teaching at the New Bauhaus in Chicago, after which he
moved to Brooklyn College where he taught Saul Bass.
 He created many logos for big American companies such as AT&T, Continental
Airlines and United Airlines.
 His work on Otto Preminger’s “The Man With The Golden Arm”
(1955) brought him recognition within Hollywood and afterwards
worked with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick
Billy Wilder and Martin Scorsese.

3. Film
Posters

4. Filmmaker
 Bass has also worked in a variety of roles such as visual consultant.
 On the film Psycho, Bass was heavily involved and storyboarded the famous
murder scene.
 “Having designed and storyboarded the shower sequence, I showed it to
Hitch. He was uneasy about it. It was very un-Hitchcockian in character. He
never used that kind of quick cutting; he loved the long shot”
 In 1964 Saul Bass and his wife Elaine directed the short documentary Why Man
Creates which won the Oscar for Documentary Short Subject.

5.  From the late 60’s Bass began to move away from title sequences to focus on
his own filmmaking and his family. In the late 80’s James L Brooks and Martin
Scorsese and returned to make the title sequences for Broadcast News (James
L Brooks, 1987), Big (Penny Marshall, 1988), Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese,
1990) etc.
 Casino was directed by Martin Scorsese and was Saul Bass’ last title sequence.

6. Logos

7. Works inspired by Saul Bass
Kutzel and Deygas are visual artists
who created the title sequence for
Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg,
2002), using the visual style that Bass
used in many of his projects.
Casino Royale opening sequence “"If you look at Bass's
work on titles such as The Man With The Golden
Arm or Vertigo," Bartlett elaborates, "The shapes he
used were pretty rudimentary – basically paper cut-outs.
By applying computer technology to this basic material,
we could create something that was simultaneously
retro and ultra-modern."” – Daniel Kleinman.

8. Captain America: The Winter Soldier Closing Credits
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