Saul Bass

Saul Bass was born in New York on 8th May 1920 and then died in 1996 at the age of 75. Bass was one of the greatest Graphic Designers of the 20th Century. Bass did graphical logos for all different companies such as Kleenex, AT&T, Quaker, and many more. Bass designed posters and he had his own style that when you looked at it that you just know that it was his work. What Bass use to do was that he would cut out every letter for every word that was going onto his poster by hand, because in those days there computers was not as advance as they are now. But as the years when on the computers got a lot more advance so that Bass could try and do more different styles of his work. As Bass was doing his posters he also started to do film titles for the big films that was coming out in the years. Bass did some really interesting but very simple titles for the films that now some of his work of his work is still being used today. Saul Bass is one of the most successful Graphic Designers in film posters, logos and film title that him and his work will still live on.

This is some of Saul Bass's work

This is a sort clip of one of his films that he had designed for

Saul Bass was the first graphic designer to ever do moving text for a film. This is one that Bass has done and it was a big hit.













This is one Film that Bass also designed for but he did a poster to go with it to


It's bold.



It's bright.



It stands out because of the colours.

Letters have been cut out by hand.

The contrast with the colours is very effective, because of the red background the black and white seem to stand out a lot bolder.











This is another poster for a different film that he designed

I think that this is really effective because it is hand cut and he has used a bit of technology for the people in the poster.

The way he has cut it out it is not straight so that makes it look a bit incomplete.

I like how the text has been placed and with the arm running through, it just makes you look at the poster in more detail.

The colours that he has used are very effective with the different shades of blue and a very heavy black.

The way he has placed the people in the poster is very good, because it makes your eye's move around the poster.