Saul Bass

Saul Bass

Graphic Designer and Filmmaker

Redefined visual language of cinema

Creator of the legendary iconography for brands like AT&T, Girl Scouts of America or Kleenex.

Designer of Film Posters and films titles sequences.

After designing the poster for the film Carmen Jones (1954) got noticed by film director Otto Preminger, who asked him to produce the titles sequences, a film component pretty much neglected at the time, and Bass made it a very important part of films.

Worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese

Saul Bass

Art Deco

Art Deco

Products n’ glass wear

1920s - 1930s _ Started to become popular (USA)

Began in France

Great Britain - Glass, coquetry

USA - Suburban, middle class life style

Influenced by Art Noveau

American artists were influenced by current events and the future; past events/inspiration (Egypt theme with futuristic themes)

Aerodynamics

Streamlining - The way speed influences, changes objects

1939 _ New York World Fair

Superman _ First superhero (born in the end of 1930s)

Art Deco Poster

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper

Influenced by Degas


His Art – Emptiness, the lonely, cinematic, narrative


-Film Noir
Light
Black and white
Contrast
Contrast between characters
Contrast of tones
Main character detective
Villain VS hero
Gangsters
Crime
Sense of isolation
Voyeurism.

Edward Hopper - Self-portrait