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OT: Saul Bass Google Doodle
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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Cool stuff. Thanks for posting.
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…..cheers Walter —- great stuff ———chris —
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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.
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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.”
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It’s great stuff, and it hardly looks dated. Could have been done last week.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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[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
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