Film Title Creator: Saul Bass

Saul Bass is an graphic designer who creates film title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. Born  in New York City, Saul Bass has worked with some famous movie names including Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese in his 40 year film career. Many famous films Saul Bass has worked on include North By North West, Psycho and Goodfellas. Famous movie sequences have come from him and are remembered for its originality.

Opening Sequences:

Saul Bass has been the man behind many film sequences recognized in the film world. The Man With The Golden Arm is a a 1955 drama which Saul Bass did the title sequence for. The title sequence connotes many of the films subjects, the choice of an arm represents the controversial heroin sequence in the film. The film's opening sequence includes animation of a cut out arm of a person addicted to heroin in paper form, to connote a sensation to the audience. North By North West, Vertigo and Psycho are Alfred Hitchcock films which Saul Bass did the title sequences and are widely praised for its new animation method of kinetic typography. Kinetic Typography is a animation technique which creates moving words. First used by Saul Bass this innovating method recognized Saul Bass as a great to Film Title Sequences. Psycho's film opening sequencing (Above) is remember in particular through it being in sync with the music. His title sequences are still payed homage today by films out today including Catch Me If You Can and X-Men: First Class.

Movie Posters:

Film advertising changed through Saul Bass' designs. Before The Man With The Golden Arm, film posters where just images of key scenes and characters in the film its advertising for. Alternatively Saul Bass changes this conventional concept to a more symbolic design. Similar to the opening sequence, Saul Bass portrayals the arms of a heroine addict, to show the main character heroin issue.




Vertigo was also designed by Saul Bass the unconventional figures are sucked into this hole, portraying how the characters are sucked into the film plot.


After Saul Bass' death in 1996, he was regarded as one of the greatest, if not these greatest graphic designer. His work won him academy awards and will stay in Hollywood history for many many years.