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  • OT: Saul Bass Google Doodle

    Posted by Walter Soyka on May 8, 2013 at 10:52 pm

    Please pardon the off-topic, but today was Saul Bass’s 93rd birthday, and Google celebrated it with a Bass-inspired doodle:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64lDaAmpvSo

    It’s an homage to the mograph of a by-gone era, and to one of the first designers to see the creative potential of film title sequences. The doodle is loaded with references to classic film titles.

    Enjoy,

    Walter Soyka
    Principal & Designer at Keen Live
    Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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    Walter Soyka replied 13 years ago 6 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Gary Hazen

    May 8, 2013 at 11:32 pm

    Cool stuff. Thanks for posting.

  • Chris Brett

    May 8, 2013 at 11:36 pm

    …..cheers Walter —- great stuff ———chris —

  • Ridley Walker

    May 9, 2013 at 12:07 am

    He’s still justifiably revered. His work on Vertigo, North by Northwest, Cape Fear, The Man with the Golden Arm etc still holds up and inspires. Thanks for the link Walter.

  • John Cuevas

    May 9, 2013 at 2:09 am

    Thanks for posting and a bigger thanks to Saul Bass who blazed the trail for so many of us.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

    “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

  • Joseph W. bourke

    May 9, 2013 at 2:24 am

    It’s great stuff, and it hardly looks dated. Could have been done last week.

    Joe Bourke
    Owner/Creative Director
    Bourke Media
    http://www.bourkemedia.com

  • Walter Soyka

    May 9, 2013 at 2:25 am

    [John Cuevas] “and a bigger thanks to Saul Bass who blazed the trail for so many of us”

    Many thanks indeed. Bass was a genius and pioneer.

    Also well-worth noting: Ray Harryhausen, visual effects pioneer and stop motion modeler and animator, has just passed away. I vividly remember watching the skeleton sequence from Jason and the Argonauts in amazement as a little boy — in retrospect, I think that was my first exposure to “movie magic.”

    Thanks to both these men for sharing their imaginations and doing the impossible on-screen.

    Walter Soyka
    Principal & Designer at Keen Live
    Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
    RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
    Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

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