Tony Palladino
Tony Palladino, who designed the indelible title of the film Psycho, died last week in Manhattan from complications of pneumonia, the New York Times reports today. He was 84.

When did Saul Bass born?

May 8, 1920
Saul Bass/Date of birth
Saul Bass, (born May 8, 1920, Bronx, New York, U.S.—died April 25, 1996, Los Angeles, California), American graphic designer and filmmaker who introduced a new art form with his imaginative film title sequences that conveyed the essence of a movie and prepared audiences for what they were about to see.

Where did Saul Bass grow up?

the Bronx
Bass was born in the largely Jewish New York borough of the Bronx in 1920 to working-class Russian-Jewish immigrants, who encouraged his early interest in and flair for the arts. Growing up in the Depression, he had to leave school at 16 to work in an advertising agency, attending art classes in the evening.

What did Saul Bass study in college?

From 1936 through 1939, in preparation for a career in graphic design, he studied modernism at New York’s Art Students League under the direction of Howard Trafton. Bass worked also as a freelance designer during that time.

How old was Saul Bass when he died?

75 years (1920–1996)
Saul Bass/Age at death
Saul Bass, the minimalist auteur who put a jagged arm in motion in 1955 and created an entire film genre, died on Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 75. The cause was non-Hodgkins lymphoma, his family said.

What typeface did Saul Bass use?

Bass utilized two sets of sans-serif fonts, all in capital, Venus Bold Extended and News Gothic Bold. News Gothic, a close relative to Franklin Gothic, is one of the most iconic typefaces designed by Morris Fuller Benton.

What logos did Saul Bass create?

Bass was responsible for some of the best-remembered, most iconic logos in North America, including both the Bell Telephone logo (1969) and successor AT globe (1983). Other well-known designs were Continental Airlines (1968), Dixie (1969) and United Airlines (1974).

Did Saul Bass have kids?

Jennifer Bass
Saul Bass/Children

Did Saul Bass make the Rocky poster?

Bass went on to create dozens of iconic film posters and title credits. His final projects before his death in 1996 were credits for four Martin Scorsese films: Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), The Age of Innocence (1993) and Casino (1995).

What logos did Michael Bierut design?

In the midst of a landscape of iconic logos and branding work sits Michael Bierut, a graphic designer responsible for immediately recognizable pieces of art like the Saks Fifth Avenue and Mastercard logos, graphics for the New York Jets, and even the graphics on the side of the New York Times building in midtown …