Graphic Designer

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Biography

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and Oscar-winning filmmaker. But he was very successful on animated motion picture title sequences.

He also worked for some of Hollywood greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanly Kubrick and Martin Scorsese.

And he was really good at designing posters and logos such as AT&T logo, he did it after the break up of the Bell system. But the most popular one was Continental Airlines which become the most recognized airline industry logo of the 1970s.

Saul Bass died on April 25th 1996 at the age of 75.

His famous logos

• He has designed many well-known logos for many organizations, such as

-Continental Airline -Girl Scouts of the USA-Japan Energy Corporation-Kose Cosmetics-YMCA-Warner Books

His movie posters

• His works spanned through 5 decades.*In 1950s

-Edge of the City-Love in the Afternoon-Saint Joan-Anatomy of a Murder-The Cardinal

His movie posters

*In 1960s-Exodus-West side story-In Harm’s Way-The Fireman’s ball-The Two of Us

His movie posters

*In 1970s-Such Good Friends-Bass on Title-Notes on the Popular Arts-The Human Factor-The Double McGuffin

His movie posters

*In 1980s-The Shining-Very Happy Alexander-The Solar Film

Why we like his styles??

• We think Saul Bass is an amazing person. His ideas was creative, even most of his designs aren’t colorful or variety as much as other designs. But they are still impressive and we think that his designs are really classic and different from other designs.

Do you think graphic design would be the same today without the designer?• In our opinion, we think that graphic design

wouldn’t be the same today without the designer, because all of the designs that we’ve seen in the advertising media, television media or the internet. All of them were designed by the designer. If we didn’t have the designer, there wouldn’t be any designs for us to use.