So great: If Stanley Kubrick had directed Game of Thrones and Saul Bass had designed the poster.
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For Saul Bass’s birthday, the title sequence for the 1956 adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days, which one brave Victorian female journalist set out to replicate in real life.
I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.
I don’t give a damn if the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it IS worth anything — it’s worth it to me. It’s the way I wanna live my life. I wanna make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.
A rare interview with Saul Bass, who would have been 92 today, on money, good work, and creative legacy
Saul Bass, considered the greatest graphic designer of all time, would have been 92 today – to celebrate, a look back at his legacy in film and design.
Saul Bass title sequence for Walk on the Wild Side (1962). In Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design, Steven Spielberg recalls the profound impression the sequence made on him:
I attempted to mimic Mr. Bass, using an 8mm camera and my dog on a leash walking along the narrow retaining wall outside my home in Scottsdale, Arizona. In trying to make my own movie…I made a foul error. I used a dog because we didn’t have a cat. And as everyone knows, dogs are somewhat less sure-footed than felines.
My cocker spaniel, Thunder, kept falling off the wall just as he got to the writer credit, did a tremendous pratfall on the producer credit, his legs went out from under him, and I got out of the titles business for good.
Also see 25 iconic Saul Bass title sequences in 100 seconds.
Henri’s Walk to Paris – iconic designer Saul Bass’s only children’s book, resurfaced 50 years later.
