Almost every day, Google changes their homepage in celebration of some occasion taking place on that day. The Google Doodles celebrate events such as holidays, anniversaries, and famous birthdays. The one for today, Wednesday May 8, is possibly the best ever. May 8, 2013 would have been the 93rd birthday of Saul Bass, one of the most influential graphic…
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One of the better movie posters ever made is the Saul Bass design for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The eye-catching yellow sheet with a horrified, pixelated face was one of the strangest things I'd seen in my young life when I first encountered it in a theater before The Shining opened. It remains a landmark…
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Saul Bass is widely known for his work as an artist, title designer, and corporate logo craftsman. His movie posters and title work for films such as The Man With the Golden Arm, Anatomy of a Murder and many movies by Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese cemented his ideas as cornerstones of cinematic storytelling and…
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Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design will be published in November 2011. The book was compiled by Bass's daughter Jennifer Bass and design historian Pat Kirkham, and even comes with a forward by Martin Scorsese. The 440 page hardcover book has a hefty cover price of $75, but Amazon is offering a preorder…
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The Daily What brings us a creepy cosplay photo of the day, featuring Nemo from Finding Nemo (and what is that near his legs?) What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 40…
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Lionsgate has released a new poster for the Ryan Reynolds one-man thriller Buried. You might remember that the independent film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical and audience acclaim, sparking a multi-studio bidding war. The story follows a private contractor who is kidnapped in Iraq and buried alive. He has 90 minutes of…
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If you've ever seen a film by Alfred Hitchcock or Stanley Kubrick, then you're probably familiar with the title sequence designs of Saul Bass. Some of the title sequences he's more notable openings include The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), Vertigo (1958),…
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The movie poster for Coen Brothers’s Burn After Reading is one of my favorite posters released this year. The distinctive style is a call back to the one-sheets of legendary poster/title artist Saul Bass. I have included some of the great Bass posters which might have inspired this new design below. Click on the image…
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