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Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design
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Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design

by John Clifford
August 2013
Beginner
240 pages
6h 16m
English
Peachpit Press
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Saul Bass

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1920–1996 | BORN: The Bronx, New York | EDUCATION: Art Students League, Brooklyn College

Pioneered the art of film title design

Developed comprehensive ad campaigns for movies

Designed many well-known corporate identity programs

“Bass fashioned title sequences into an art, creating in some cases a mini-film within a film. His graphic compositions in movement function as a prologue to the movie—setting the tone, providing the mood, and foreshadowing the action.”12

—Martin Scorsese

Before Saul Bass, movie titles were considered so unimportant that theater curtains weren’t pulled aside until they were over. When Otto Preminger’s The Man ...

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