Artist · 3 prints
Saul Bass Prints
About Saul Bass
Saul Bass (1920–1996) was an American graphic designer and filmmaker. He was born on 8 May 1920 in the Bronx, New York, and studied at the Art Students League in New York and at Brooklyn College, where he was taught by the designer György Kepes. After working as an advertising designer in New York, he moved to Los Angeles in 1946, where he worked for the rest of his career. He died in Los Angeles on 25 April 1996.
Bass is known for film title sequences, film posters and corporate logos. His animated title sequence for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) made his reputation, and he went on to create titles for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959) and Psycho (1960). His short film Why Man Creates (1968) won the Academy Award for best documentary short subject. He also designed logos for the Bell System, AT&T and Quaker Oats.
Saul Bass prints: reproductions of the film posters the American designer made for Hollywood films in the late 1950s. The collection includes Vertigo (1958), made for Alfred Hitchcock, Anatomy of a Murder (1959), made for Otto Preminger, and North by Northwest (1959).
Our selection focuses on his posters for suspense and crime films. Each uses flat colour, cut-paper shapes and hand-drawn lettering, with a single symbol, such as the Vertigo spiral or the cut-out figure of Anatomy of a Murder, standing in for the story.
The posters suit living rooms, studies, offices and home cinemas. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
