There were many people that influenced Bass and his design like his teacher Gyorgy
Kepes but also by his own mother and father as well.2 Saul Bass has greatly influenced graphic design not only through creating iconic corporate identity logos but by also launching graphic design in the film industry through the use of title sequences. Saul Bass from the beginning of high school knew he wanted to create living art from one his friend’s uncle who painted massive wall fronts when a movie opened.3 Bass never went to college, until his later years, …show more content…
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10 Will Perkins. “Catch Me If You Can” Art of the Title. August 22, 2011.
11 Rick Poynor, Saul Bass, a life in pictures. Creative Review, 2011, 39-48.
12 Pat King and Jennifer Bass. Saul Bass. Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2011.
13 Robert McG and Thomas Jr. “Saul Bass, 75, Designer, Dies; Made Art Out of Movie Titles.”
The New York Times. April 27, 1996
14 Jim Supanick. "Saul Bass: "...to Hit the Ground Running..."." Film Comment 33, no. 2 (Mar, 1997): 72-
77, 75 (accessed September 18, 2014).
15 Pat King and Jennifer Bass. Saul Bass. Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2011. Wong 4 methods to Bass specifically in his film and print designs.16 This is why Bass was also influenced by the Russian Constructivist typography and Bauhaus design theory that is featured in most of his designs.
Saul Bass greatly influenced film titles and corporate logo designs. One of his colleagues, Martin Scorsese described Bass’s film titles as “…not simply unimaginative ‘identification tags’ as in many films but rather, they are integral