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Saul Bass is born in the Brinx district of New York
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Saul Bass - Graphic designer, Title designer
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Studies at the Art Students' League in Manhattan
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Assistant in the art department of Warner Brothers New York
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First title sequence for Preminger's Carmen Jones
In 1954, director Otto Preminger commissioned Bass to design the movie poster for his film “Carmen Jones”. After being impressed with Bass’ work, Preminger asked Bass to do the films’ title sequence as well. -
Titles for Preminger's The Man with a Golden Arm
It was his work on Preminger’s film “The Man with the Golden Arm” that established Bass in the film advertising industry. -
Completed titles for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
For opening sequence of 'Vertigo', Bass used the motif of the revolving Spirograph to evoke the dizzying sensations of the film. He always aimed to create the right climate for the film in question when designing opening sequences, offering audiences a visual feast from the very first frame, and plunging them into the atmosphere of the story that was about to unfold. Thanks to Bass, they no longer had to sit through the tedious credits which had until then been part of the cinematic experience, -
Hitchcock's North by Northwest Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder
Bass’ designs for Anatomy of a Murder were devised long before cameras began to roll, making clear the value that Preminger placed on Bass’ work and its role in positioning and branding his films. -
Titles for Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and Hitchcock's Psych were created
Psycho was the third and final collaboration between Saul Bass and Alfred Hitchcock. While his work on Vertigo and North by Northwest was limited to the title sequences, in this case, Bass was also credited as a “pictorial consultant” for his role as an advisor on some of the movie’s critical sequences, including the famous shower scene. -
Directs his first short film, Apples and Oranges. He marries Elaine Makatura
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Wins an Oscar for the short film Why Man Create. He also designs the corporate identitly for the Bell System
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Designs the corporate identity for United Airlines
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Saul directs his first feature film Phase IV
Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants -
Designs poster for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and the corporate identity for Minolta
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Created the titles for Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas
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Titles foe Scorsese's Cape Fear. Also did the poster designs for the 63rd Academy Awards
Cape FearCape Fear’s title credits are evocative of two of Bass’ prior works. Most notable are the insertions of footage - that of a distorted, sinister male face - from the title sequence of John Frankenheimer’s Seconds. -
Title for Scorsese's The Age of Innocence and poster designs for Spielberg's Schindler's List
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Designs titles for Scorsese's Casino
Having been blown up by a car bomb, Sam Rothstein finds himself falling through a hyperbolized fireball as Bach‘s “Matthaus Passion” plays elegiac over the soundtrack. Rothstein is either in hell, or well on his way to it. Fire transitions into the crimson lights of the Las Vegas Strip, and Rothstein keeps falling. Flames shoot up from the bottom of the frame, engulfing a screen covered with abstractionist shots of Las Vegas signage and illumination. Rothstein descends quickly over the superimpo -
Saul Bass dies in Los Angeles
He was aged 75.
Quote: "Design is thinking made visual."
