10th Chicago International Film Festival
1973 · Lithograph
24 x 18 7/16" (61.0 x 46.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Saul Bass
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Greetings!
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966
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Film Posters
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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The 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the New York Art Directors Club
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker whose bold, reductive visual language defined postwar American corporate and entertainment design. Working primarily in typography, illustration, and film, he created iconic movie posters and title sequences for directors including Alfred Hitchcock and Otto Preminger, establishing a modernist aesthetic that prioritized clarity and psychological impact over ornament. His design for the AT&T logo and countless film titles demonstrated his conviction that design could distill complex ideas into single, memorable images. Bass also directed and produced experimental films in the 1950s and 1960s, treating motion and sound with the same economy of means he applied to static graphics.
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