Saul Bass Research Paper

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A famous graphic designer named Saul Bass, he was born by Eastern European Jewish Immigrants parents in New York City in May 8, 1920 and died in Los Angeles, California on April 25, 1996 at age of 75. He died of non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. His wife named Elaine Makatura also was very creative. They was married for 35 years. They had two children named Jennifer and Jeffrey. When he was born and grew up in the big city of New York City also he developed a sense that show life in a world class metropolis. He graduated from James Monroe High School in Bronx, New York. From 1936 to 1939, when he graduated from high school, he started in preparation and attending for a career in graphic design, he went to a school named Art Students League of New York and …show more content…

After that, he was a freelance designer for commercial advertising agencies and companies until near the end of World War II, he was still a freelance designer until he decided to enroll another school at Brooklyn College where and when he studied about Gyorgy Kepes in around 1944-1945. After he was done attending Brooklyn College, he moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946 when he first had his business and operated a permanent business venture, a design place called “Saul Bass and Associates”.
In 20th Century, he was greatly and famously known as an American graphic designer, Academy Award winning filmmaker, and his design of motion of picture title sequences, film posters, and many stunning logos for many American corporates. He was the first and most a pioneering 1950’s famous Hollywood designer, he also was the founder of conceptual cover

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