First Year Contextual

Saul Bass

Saul Bass is a graphic designer who focuses on areas mainly to do with movie posters, a lot of his work includes very few colors that often tend to be different tones of the same color, there are two key colors that I see in many of his posters black and orange.

These oranges vary from a dark almost red orange all the way to a softer, less strong orange shade. I liked his style due to his silhouette style, though these silhouettes will only appear over key features of the poster, one example is the poster for “A tale of two cities” where the silhouette covers the Eiffel tower and Big Ben, he uses this to show only what he needs to show to make it recognizable as well as highlighting the key points within the posters. I had also used one of his styles in one of my pieces, I had used The Hangover official movie poster and gone over it with the pen tool, I then used 2 different shades of orange and black to limit myself to the style in which Bass used in his work, to this day I believe this is one of my best pieces I’ve done as the styles look well to match his as well as being able to make 4 posters, rearranging the colors and making it black and white without using more than 3 colors each time in my pieces. Another style in his pieces is the very simplistic back grounds, in both examples above its 2 different colors and in The Lord of the Rings one it’s only 2 different shades of gray, this is also another way to highlight as not being a key focus in Saul Bass’ Work.