Saul Bass Inspires YouTubers, Designers & More

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=0d650ffe-1ec7-4395-883b-24e806d21a65&type=website"></script><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ_rYQ_sfJZ5fWcga4SzyDII-ed7MQjF7j5ChR7bFHDRY_e_R4KzLcE0_lFKcbSt3jMzgsAvkK3qNacoyxDytARf7GqOnLP5VRvolMXy1ShXgZED1zNMhaCBAaOfNtfMMN1DYrP0I52usC/s1600-h/Picture+38.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174714600751250530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ_rYQ_sfJZ5fWcga4SzyDII-ed7MQjF7j5ChR7bFHDRY_e_R4KzLcE0_lFKcbSt3jMzgsAvkK3qNacoyxDytARf7GqOnLP5VRvolMXy1ShXgZED1zNMhaCBAaOfNtfMMN1DYrP0I52usC/s400/Picture+38.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 250px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs2lxcMmDv6mU3nZAJ0Eo3yczWu40wQZv44PtJQ1TPSHbc0iALXBoohocbDwdFsfZWa-xpvvUVFOwvBlt_b8nwp1UhsybAzqSgq7dY8SrrsiS0G2mVob6woV67hkJbeJijfpAumRCfSO2f/s1600-h/saulBass-1-701782.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402651376299646786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs2lxcMmDv6mU3nZAJ0Eo3yczWu40wQZv44PtJQ1TPSHbc0iALXBoohocbDwdFsfZWa-xpvvUVFOwvBlt_b8nwp1UhsybAzqSgq7dY8SrrsiS0G2mVob6woV67hkJbeJijfpAumRCfSO2f/s400/saulBass-1-701782.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 254px; height: 251px;" /></a><br />Above: Designer Saul Bass (1920-1996) and some of his famous work<br /><br />For those of you who are unfamiliar with designer Saul Bass (and shame on you!), let me start by introducing you to one of his most famous title sequences:<br /><br /><object height="380" width="525"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xbgb3E7l_KY"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xbgb3E7l_KY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="380" width="525"></embed></object><br /><br />The site <a href="http://www.notcoming.com/">Not Coming To A Theater Near You</a> has a <a href="http://www.notcoming.com/saulbass/index2.php">wonderful feature on all of Saul Bass' title design sequences.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.notcoming.com/saulbass/index2.php" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174706328644238418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz9B0GjLvTIiVzEKtl8O3zfGDdXDB2RFrQBgJQmbO3WP5pmbNvtMgy_ikbcApdC_RjWtHf-5l7DkxJCt_IZWWadlRonSAZqLfxnp-D_SIj9dgUJkn7GcyGWyeG46pZNDJ0HhNCBDw9UgE6/s400/Picture+37.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 358px;" /></a><br /><br /><span>Saul Bass has always been heralded as an amazing designer. He worked with directors like Otto Preminger and Alfred Hitchcock repeatedly and was and is highly regarded as one of the best graphic designers of all time.<br /><br />Now, some very clever and creative folks have been making their own versions of Saul Bass' famous graphics and sharing them on youtube. Here is one that was brought to my attention by the hip folks at <a href="http://www.notcot.com/">NOTCOT</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><blockquote><span><span style="font-style: italic;">"If Star Wars was filmed two decades earlier and Saul Bass did the opening title sequence, it "might" look like this...</span></span></blockquote><br /><br /><object height="380" width="525"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/z25t-PQDn5A"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/z25t-PQDn5A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="380" width="525"></embed></object><span><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">This was part of a school project. The song is "Machine" by the Buddy Rich Band off the album Big Swing Face (1967).</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Note: I'm aware of the errors in the video (spelling, Max Rebo), but I chose to leave them because the video is still enjoyable. This was just for fun and NOT a serious artistic endeavor!</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Oh, and you MUST watch the video response by </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/brooksy362436" style="font-style: italic;">brooksy362436</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. Brilliant!"</span></blockquote></span><div style="text-align: right;"><span><span style="font-style: italic;"> --YouTuber Bhilmers, age 36, USA</span></span><br /></div><span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>So, of course, I then had to see the video response by You Tuber Brooksy362436 (Daniel, age 33, UK):<br /></span><span></span><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">"The original video is utterly fantastic, but since it has been made there have been huge technical advancements. Now the video can be remade exactly how the author intended it all those weeks ago. "</span><span></span></blockquote><br /><br /><object height="380" width="525"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2yoIEWpl9oc"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2yoIEWpl9oc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="380" width="525"></embed></object><span></span><br /><br />So, now that I got the Saul Bass bug, I did a little more surfing and found some fun posts and items. The blog, <a href="http://focuspull.blogspot.com/">Focus Pull</a>, has a great post on 10 contemporary movie posters that were inspired by Saul Bass. <a href="http://focuspull.blogspot.com/2008/02/saul-bass-poster-art.html">See them here. </a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKcsCRnYXquRLCi-aOi-ElZts3F01I-alHLiDsvuWheZRaKmYCOq-ZtUh_Sqh8gNSY76U28EpopYEpQS7G_KQNOJRkx1iy9yRCvkDUtpqkYOX84FMADoW65ZFKlTDjs_jMvF7TpsGnuYUA/s1600-h/Picture+8.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402649527732523058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKcsCRnYXquRLCi-aOi-ElZts3F01I-alHLiDsvuWheZRaKmYCOq-ZtUh_Sqh8gNSY76U28EpopYEpQS7G_KQNOJRkx1iy9yRCvkDUtpqkYOX84FMADoW65ZFKlTDjs_jMvF7TpsGnuYUA/s400/Picture+8.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 424px;" /></a><br /><i>Above: Before The Devil Knows You're Dead movie poster clearly influenced by Saul Bass' movie posters for Anatomy Of A Murder and Man With The Golden Arm</i><br /><br /><a href="http://focuspull.blogspot.com/2008/02/saul-bass-poster-art.html"></a><br />Feeling inspired?<br />Try creating some Saul bass work of your own, especially now that you can download the "Hitchcock" font in Mac postscript or Windows designed by Matt Terich and available from Typographica <a href="http://typographica.org/001110.php">here. </a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5Ev-Ef044q9PRsCh_hGyqXV-TNb-pd7TIDKcbX5619cpqFrJFouBy_R1iIVZCp4vpuPHjC1TNaVXxzlT6kbI5ligl4kCacRP0iSc0ewkXx6m5ObPnbHgLlOllIal-tUx2ZQR4YExdUNZ/s1600-h/Picture+39.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174719982345272450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5Ev-Ef044q9PRsCh_hGyqXV-TNb-pd7TIDKcbX5619cpqFrJFouBy_R1iIVZCp4vpuPHjC1TNaVXxzlT6kbI5ligl4kCacRP0iSc0ewkXx6m5ObPnbHgLlOllIal-tUx2ZQR4YExdUNZ/s400/Picture+39.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 529px; height: 301px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://typographica.org/001110.php"></a><br /><br />Learn more and see more about Saul Bass:<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bass">Saul Bass on Wikipedia</a><br /><a href="http://www.designmuseum.org/design/saul-bass">Saul Bass bio at Design Museum</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.thelooniverse.com/movies/west/saulbass/logos.html">Saul Bass Logos and trademarks</a><br /><a href="http://www.saulbass.tv/">Saul Bass on the web</a>

Saul Bass Inspires YouTubers, Designers & More

Above: Designer Saul Bass (1920-1996) and some of his famous work For those of you who are unfamiliar with designer Saul Bass (and shame on ...

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