Bass, Saul
Died: 1996 AD, at 75 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Designers, Producers
1920 - Saul Bass is a US graphic designer and filmmaker was born 8th of May in the Bronx district of New York.
1936 - Wins a scholarship to study at the Art Students' League in Manhattan.
1938 - Working as an assistant in the art department of the New York office of Warner Bros.
1944 - Joins the Blaine Thompson Company, an advertising agency, and enrolls at Brooklyn College, where he is taught by the émigré Hungarian designer and design theorist Gyorgy Kepes.
1946 - Traveled to Los Angeles to work as an art director at the advertising agency, Buchanan and Company.
1952 - Opens his own studio, named Saul Bass & Associates in 1955.
1954 - Designs his first title sequence for Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones.
1955 - Creates titles for Robert Aldrich's The Big Knife and Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch. The animated sequence he devises for Preminger's The Man with a Golden Arm causes a sensation.
1957 - Devises titles for Michael Anderson's Around The World in 80 Days and Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse.
1958 - Forges a new collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock by designing the titles for Vertigo.
- Works with the architects Buff, Straub & Hensman on the design of his home, Case Study House #20 in Altadena.
1959 - Provide the title sequences for Hitchcock's North by Northwest and Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder.
1962 - Devises titles for Edward Dmytryk's Walk on the Wild Side and directs his first short film, Apples and Oranges. Marries Elaine Makatura.
1963 - Stanley Kramer commissions Bass to create titles for its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
1966 - Directs the racing sequences and devises the titles for John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix.
1968 - Wins an Oscar for the short film Why Man Creates and develop a corporate identity programme for the Bell System telephone company.
- Creates an installation for the Milan Triennale, which is cancelled after a student occupation.
1973 - Designs the corporate identity of United Airlines.
1974 - Directs his first feature film Phase IV.
1980 - Designs the poster for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and devises the corporate identity of the Minolta
camera company.
1984 - Creates a poster for the Los Angeles Olympic games.
1987 - James L. Brooks persuades Bass to return to title design by creating the opening sequence of Broadcast News.
1990 - Begins a long collaboration with Martin Scorsese by creating the titles for GoodFellas.
1991 - Devises the titles for Scorsese's Cape Fear and a poster for the 63rd Academy Awards.
- Bass designs the Academy Awards poster for the next five years.
1993 - Creates the title sequence for Scorsese's The Age of Innocence and a poster for Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List.
1995 - Designs titles for Scorsese's Casino.
1996 - Saul Bass died 25th of April in Los Angeles of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Related Books
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Six Chapters in Design: Saul Bass, Ivan Chermayeff, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Ikko Tanaka, Henryk Tomaszewski by Philip Meggs (Paperback - Oct 1, 1997) Stylish and concise, this volume presents the work of six venerable names in modern design history. Featuring more than three hundred examples of their best work, yet still eminently portable,Six...  |
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Graphic Design: Los Angeles by Julie Prendiville and Gerry Rosentswieg and Saul Bass (Hardcover - Nov 24, 1988) |
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Album Cover Art of Soundtracks by Frank Jastfelder and Stefan Kassel (Paperback - May 24, 1997)  |
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Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design by Joe Morgenstern (Hardcover - Oct 24, 1997) |
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West Meets East/ California-Tokyo. by Saul et al. Bass (Hardcover - Jul 24, 1988) |
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