Hasta La Ideas

In his profile piece for the current issue of CR, Rick Poynor notes that Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design finally gives the great man the book he deserves. A short film shows the book in production

Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design (Laurence King, £48) runs to 424 pages – it’s a weighty tome in every sense. In his piece for our current issue, Rick Poynor notes that, judged by the admittedly crude metric of Google results, Bass is by far the most famous graphic designer. And yet, until this new work, designed by Bass’s daughgter Jennifer and written by design historian Pat Kirkham, there was no monograph covering his entire career.

This film documents the printing of the book and gives some sense of its sheer scale:

On November 14, MoMA in New York is hosting an evening which will screen some of Saul and Elaine Bass’s most notable film works, including the fantastic Why Man Creates short (clip from the famous Edifice sequence below). Details here

Poynor’s piece, in which he argues that the enduring appeal of Bass’s work lies in its humanity, is published in the November issue of CR, out now.

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