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.
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At a glance
Visual cues
- Flat cut paper silhouettes
- A palette held to a few colors
- Uneven hand drawn capitals
- Simple moves along straight lines
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
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Dictionary entry
- 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
Related entries
- Silent Film Intertitle (サイレント映画の字幕カード)Editorially linked for a useful contrast.Compare Saul Bass Title Design and Silent Film Intertitle
- Cartoon Modern (カートゥーン・モダン)Shared effects: Play / Exhilaration.Compare Saul Bass Title Design and Cartoon Modern
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