Saul Bass

Saul Bass is an inspiration to me. His work inspires me to be more, to love and embrace typography, to visually communicate nuance simply and elegantly with style and simple shapes. Saul Bass has heart and grit. He is my personal hero.

He was born May 8, 1920 and lived until April 25, 1996, was an American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion-picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos.

During his 40-year career Bass worked for some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Among his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of a skyscraper in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.