The Shining Poster Saul Bass
When that client is stanley kubrick and the designer is saul bass it s just brilliant.
The shining poster saul bass. In each one he implemented a sort of dotted stippling effect. When you examine the digital art part of the picture you can get the massage we want to deliver. During his 40 year career bass worked for some of hollywood s most prominent filmmakers including alfred hitchcock otto preminger billy wilder stanley kubrick and martin scorsese. Saul bass b æ s.
It came from the office of famous graphic designer saul bass known not just for storyboarding kubrick s spartacus but for creating the title sequences for movies like otto preminger s the man with the golden arm and alfred hitchcock s vertigo whose poster bass also designed north by northwest and psycho whose immortal shower scene bass may also have come up with. Bass got to work and created five temp designs to show to kubrick. Plenty of those designs conveyed all the refinement of a ransom note collage. Saul bass posters for the shining that stanley kubrick rejected share the shining the 1980 horror film directed by the great stanley kubrick is famously based on stephen king s 1977 novel of the same name.
Saul bass is an iconic poster designer responsible for designing the original yellow face poster for the shining. While we re a bit late to the party on this we had to share these images of bass rejected designs for stanley kubrick s the shining found on cinema website the film stage. Likewise designer saul bass whose film posters and movie titles set a new standard most notably those he made for directors alfred hitchcock vertigo psycho and otto preminger anatomy of a murder. We take a look at some of his rejected designs along with kubrick s criticisms.
May 8 1920 april 25 1996 was an american graphic designer and oscar winning filmmaker best known for his design of motion picture title sequences film posters and corporate logos. With a cover letter sent with the designs this is what bass had to say dear stanley. Saul bass was tapped by kubrick to design the film s poster. From vertigo to the shining saul bass movie posters remain some of the most iconic ever designed.
Go ahead and run an image search for 1955 movie posters. One might expect a bass x kubrick collaboration to be equally epic but in this case it was the behind the scenes drama that took center stage.