I have long been a fan of the designer Saul Bass, most especially of his film work. When I was doing design demos last year, a couple of the participants commented that what they were seeing and creating “felt very Saul Bassish.” Recently I came across a collection of most of his title sequences (and posters where film is not available) on the Saul Bass page of Christian Annyas’ excellent site devoted to movie title stills. On the strength of spending several hours with them, I added Bass’ work to the time line with a 1955 entry for The Man with the Golden Arm.
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