Saul Bass Title Design

ソール・バスのタイトルデザイン / 1955 to 1990s / Style / Broadcast Design

Moves flat cut paper shapes and hand drawn capitals along simple straight paths in time with the music, stating the theme before the film begins.

Flat cut paper silhouettes / A palette held to a few colors / Uneven hand drawn capitals / Simple moves along straight lines

Saul Bass, Spartacus title logo 1960 — Wikimedia Commons / CC0Saul Bass, imagery for Anatomy of a Murder 1959 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domainSaul Bass, poster for Exodus 1960 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Handing over a work's theme and temperature before the story starts · Redesigning the obligation of credits as a piece in its own right
Type
One face only, entrances and exits designed to the musical beat
Composition
Hand the names to the moving shapes, fix one reading position
Material
Art built apart from the feature, few colors, one repeated motif
Caution
Decoration unrelated to the feature is not the form, since only the structure that summarizes the theme survives, and when moving the names becomes the point there is no time to read them.
Further study
Saul Bass, The Man with the Golden Arm / Maurice Binder's 007 openings / Kyle Cooper, Se7en

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