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SAUL BASS
Transcript of SAUL BASS - University of California, Los Angelesclasses.dma.ucla.edu/Spring06/155/projects/roxane...
SAUL BASS
TIMELINE
1920 Saul Bass is born in the Bronx district of New York
1936 Studies at the Art Students’ League in Manhattan
1938 Assistant in the art department of Warner Bros NY
1954 First title sequence for Preminger’s Carmen Jones
1955 Titles for Preminger’s The Man with a Golden Arm
1958 TItles for Alfred Hitchcocks’s Vertigo.
1959Hitchcock’s North by NorthwestPreminger’s Anatomy of a Murder
1960 Titles for Stanley Kubrick’s SpartacusTitles for Hitchcock’s Psycho
1962 Directs his first short film, Apples and Oranges Marries Elaine Makatura 1968 Wins an Oscar for the short film Why Man Creates Corporate identity for the Bell System
1973 Designs the corporate identity of United Airlines
1974 Directs his first feature film Phase IV
1980 Designs poster for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining Corporate identity of the Minolta camera
1990 Titles for Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas
1991 Titles for Scorsese’s Cape FearDesigns poster for the 63rd Academy Awards.
1993 Titles for Scorsese’s The Age of InnocenceDesigns poster for Spielberg’s Schindler’s List
1995 Designs titles for Scorsese’s Casino
1996 Saul Bass dies in Los Angeles
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CONCLUSION
He is a miniature filmmaker Once you see the opening titles to a film that Saul Bass has done, you can walk out of the theatre because you know exactly what the film’s about: he has shown you the entire thing in the first minute.
His minimalist style continues to be referenced
How much variation does his work demonstrate?What happened to his process and his style with the use of computers/programs?
Interesting distinctions between his corporate graphic design work and his film workThis also opens up the question about who today has a career that has been as broad and whether his role has been taken over by larger design firmsex: taking a hiatus in the 80s 90s, when the seven phenomena occured.
![Storyboarding [including Saul Bass Psycho]](https://static.fdocuments.in/doc/165x107/55911b601a28ab74758b4777/storyboarding-including-saul-bass-psycho.jpg)
