Saul Bass

Saul Bass is arguably one of the most famous graphic designer in US history. Even though he might not be a house hold name such as movie stars or famous athletes, but Bass has left his mark in history. We see his work day in and day out, whether it is riding the bus, buying groceries or waiting in the airport. Bass was many of things in his lifetime, a graphic designer, title designer and a film director.

In Bass early life, he graduated from James Monroe high school in the Bronx and studied part time at the Art Students League in Manhattan. Bass began in his time in Hollywood in the early 1940's doing print work for film ads.

Throughout Bass film industry he has worked on many movies. Bass first movie he had done some kind of part is in 1954 film Cameron Jones to his last in 1995 with Casino. In total of 49 different films. Probably his most famous is Vertigo and Psycho. Bass worked with some of the biggest filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. And besides the posters, which would be the first thing that you would think of as a graphic designer’s job, he was also in charge of the title sequence and the credits and he for each project he was able to create something extraordinary with these most simple means like I said earlier.

Saul Bass is an American graphic designer and a academy award winning filmmaker. Bass was born May 8, 1920 in New York City and passed April 25, 1996 in Los Angeles. During his 40 year career Bass has worked on many Hollywood movies and title. Not only did he work in the film industry and making titles and poster but he also had his hand dipped in major markets in the retail industry. He has worked on many logos through out the US. Just to name some a few, General Foods, United airways Quaker oats and Dixie.





Bass has also showed us how versatile graphic designer can be.