Saul Bass
- Introduction
- Saul Bass (; May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and Oscar-winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion-picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. During his 40-year career, Bass worked for some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Among his best known title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of a skyscraper in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho. Bass designed some of the most iconic corporate logos in North America, including the Bell System logo in 1969, as well as AT&T's globe logo in 1983 after the breakup of the Bell System. He also designed Continental Airlines' 1968 jet stream logo and United Airlines' 1974 tulip logo, which became some of the most recognized airline industry logos of the era. He died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Los Angeles on April 25, 1996, at the age of 75.
- Wikidata
- Q536884
- Introduction
- Bass' best known work remains the title designs he produced for various Hollywood films, album covers, and logo designs, including the Getty square wordmark.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Film Director, Designer, Typographer, Graphic Designer, Commercial Artist, Photographer
- Name
- Saul Bass
- Ulan
- 500021030
Exhibitions
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Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye
Nov 15, 2014–Jan 18, 2016
MoMA
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Hand Signals: Digits, Fists, and Talons
Apr 5–Sep 8, 2013
MoMA
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Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980
Dec 23, 2009–Jul 25, 2010
MoMA
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Jazz Score
Apr 16–Sep 17, 2008
MoMA
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Greetings!
Mar 1–May 8, 1966
MoMA
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Saul Bass has
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Saul Bass Poster for the film The Man with the Golden Arm directed by Otto Preminger 1955
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Saul Bass, Elmer Bernstein, Decca Records Album cover for The Man with the Golden Arm 1955
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Saul Bass, Frank Sinatra, Capitol Records Album Cover for Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color 1956
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Saul Bass Saul Bass letterhead (Letter to Arthur A. Cohen & Elaine Lustig Cohen) 1956
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Saul Bass Bonjour Tristesse 1957
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Saul Bass Poster for the film Saint Joan directed by Otto Preminger 1957
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Saul Bass Album cover for Bonjour Tristesse, music from the motion picture soundtrack 1957
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Saul Bass Poster for the film Anatomy of a Murder directed by Otto Preminger 1959
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Saul Bass, Duke Ellington, Columbia Records Album cover for Duke Ellington's music from the motion picture Anatomy of a Murder 1959
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Saul Bass Saul Bass letterhead (Letter to Arthur A. Cohen & Elaine Lustig Cohen) 1962
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Saul Bass Saul Bass letterhead (Letter to Arthur A. Cohen & Elaine Lustig Cohen) 1962
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Saul Bass Saul Bass letterhead (Letter to Arthur A. Cohen & Elaine Lustig Cohen) 1962
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Saul Bass 2nd New York Film Festival Sept. 14-26 1964-Philharmonic Hall Lincoln Center 1964
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