Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (629 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1856697525 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 428 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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As design historian Pat Kirkham shows in his forthcoming book on Bass (co-authored with Bass' daughter Jennifer), the legendary "visual communicator" also applied his graphic wizardry to album and book covers, typefaces, packaging, retail displays, a hi-fi system, toys and a postage stamp."Surely Bass already has a monograph--he must. " A superb guide." --Wall Street JournalSaul Bass, best known for transforming the way movies begin, was in fact a designer of incredible versatility. But he didn't, until nowToday, everyone
King of Graphics Rob Hardy Find the common element among these things: _Psycho_; United Airlines; Quaker Oats; Dixie Cups; _Goodfellas_; the Girls Scouts of America. I picked a grab bag, and I could have included a lot more, to show how diverse the work of Saul Bass was; he did graphics, and more, for all of them. There is no bigger name in graphic design than Saul Bass, and now there is a gorgeous book, huge and colorful as befits his career, _Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design_ (Lawrence King Publishing) by his daughter Jennifer Bass, herself a graphic designer, and Pat Kirkham, who teaches decorative arts and design history. Flip through the 400 big pages here, a. J. Merritt said A fitting tribute to a great artist. One might fear that a book about a great artist spearheaded by one of his offspring would be overly personal and perhaps too adulatory. This book is neither. While it does certainly pay homage to Bass--as it should, because he was a giant of design--I think it's fair to say that Jennifer Bass and Co. have paid impressive tribute in a book as elegantly and engagingly laid out and designed as much of her father's work. The truly fascinating part of this book for those of us who came to Saul Bass through his film credits is to discover his origins and his amazing body of work as a designer. He ranks just barely below Rand as a founding father o. Design Genius! I had been reading a book about Alfred Hitchcock when I first heard the name "Saul Bass". A few years ago, I was reading about a movie called "Seconds" and there was that name "Saul Bass" again. Then I saw a small mention of this book in "Entertainment Weekly" and just had to get it. It took me a while to get to it because I have a tendency to buy more books than I read, but this year, I made it my goal to read this book and I just finished it! Great big colorful pictures make this book an easy read and a joy to read! I knew about Saul and the movies but was shocked to read about all of the famous corporate logos that he designed. Just when
She has written and edited a number of books, including Charles and Ray Eames (1998) and Women Designers in the USA 1900-2000 (2001). In 1994, she and her husband, Lance Glover, opened their studio, Treehouse Design Partnership in Los Angeles, working in the areas of environmental graphics, identity and book design.Pat Kirkham is Professor in the History of Design, Decorative Arts and Culture at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture, New York. . She
His best known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Otto Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. His wife and collaborator, Elaine, joined the Bass office in the late 1950s. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT&T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta. This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th Century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of Amer