Saul Bass

Graphic Designer Research Paper Born in New York City on May 8, 1920, Saul Bass was a popular graphic designer with a career that spanned over 40 years. Bass started out as a graphic designer in 1938 with a job at Warner Brothers. After six years, Bass left to study at the Art Students League in New York. He attended Brooklyn College and made his money working as a freelance designer. After finishing school Bass took his talents to Los Angeles to start his own design studio called Saul Bass and Associates and began to work in the film industry. Baas was best known for his work in the movie industry. His first big job in the movies was in 1954 with a production of Otto Preminger, helping to advertise for Carmen Jones. Bass brought ideas to…

So this is a story all about how Saul Bass’ life got twistered upside down, and I would like to take a minute just sit right there, I will tell you how he became the most influential graphic designer of the 20th century. On May 8, 1920, Saul Bass was born in the Bronx, New York to Eastern European Jewish Immigrants. Now Saul Bass was definitely the kind of person who made lemonade when life handed him lemons. In his early years, he stayed local in New York and at the age of just 16 years old,…

“Doctor Who” story The Seeds of Death then, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The latter, being a seminal piece of cinematic history, comes with a ready made arsenal of iconic moments and imagery to draw upon. In the creation of the series of posters, I was inspired by the work of mid-century designer Saul Bass — both his film posters and title sequence designs.…

the credits tell them there’s only three minutes left to eat popcorn. I take this ‘dead’ period and try to do more than simply get rid of names that filmgoers aren’t interested in. I aim to set up the audience for what’s coming; make them expectant.” Saul Bass (GranneBlog, 2011) Saul Bass’ aim from the start was to change the way the audience viewed the title sequence. His unique approach to making the title sequence the “movie within the movie” has earned him high recognition in the film…

sequences he created. Saul Bass’s style is unique and all it’s own due to the rough and unpolished looks but also his way of transforming ordinary objects into art. 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…

Divergently, David became known throughout the Holy Bible in multiple stories. To begin with, King Saul had failed his kingdom, so Samuel, a prophet, was in search of a new king (Pope 72). While in a pondering motion, Samuel heard God speaking to him, “I will send thee to Jesse, the Bethlehemite: for I have provided a king among his many sons” (1 Samuel 16:1). Insolently, Jesse and seven of his sons went to the palace and God rejected each one. While David was tending the sheep, God anointed him…

why did the people of Israel desire a king? Saul, David, and Solomon are the most well-known kings of Israel, and the common attribute that each king either excelled in or struggled with was obedience. Obedience is what God asked from each king; unfortunately, not every king obeyed the commands of the Lord. Originally, they were not supposed to a king, but the people of Israel did not trust God and wanted to follow other nations. Samuel at the time was getting old and decided to appoint his sons…

desire to maintain harmony within the organization. Conflict is defined as a struggle between two interdependent parties (Hopinks and Yonker, 2015) stemming from a difference in attitudes, interests, understanding requirements and thought process (Mostenska and Ralko, 2014). Through various Biblical stories, there are examples of a variety of methods to handle conflict within relationships, processes, and organizations. Interpersonal incompatibilities result in relational conflict which leads…

Question: an emotional engagement with Bernini’s David allows the viewer to effectively engage with and fully understand this work of art. • Introduction to Bernini’s David. • The story behind it. So the sculpture’s story comes from the holy bible, that a shepherd young man who will become the king of Israelites, (David) was only 15 years old when Israelites were in a battle with philistines and philistines had a giant that none of Israelites solders was brave enough to stand in his face and…

Saul was infuriated and filled with envy by the action that Samuel took and proceeded to chase after David in one occasion in an attempt to murder him! Saul was not successful and the deed that The Lord ordered was done and David sat at the throne of Israel and his name flourished. Unfortunately Samuel soon passed and joined The Lord in the heavens, his legacy did not end here though and he continued to assist God and helped to guide Saul down the correct path. After Samuel's passing he appeared…