Saul Bass and Picto Plasma

Saul Bass and Union Motion Graphics

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       During class we watched a documentary on Saul Bass and also Picto Plasma. These documentaries introduced us to the world of moving graphics and some of its artist.

Saul Bass is not only a great graphic designer, but he is also a great movie poster producer. He created several different openings for different Broadway productions as well as movie posters. Among these productions were “West Side Story”, “ The Man with a Broken Hand”, and “ The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.” These works by Saul were done around the early 1900’s and still are a big impact on today’s graphic designers. The reason in this being said is because he has been mentioned in several of my class already.

Then we looked at Picto Plasma. The video starts out with series of different sculptural images in both 2 and 3D. At the start of the movie many of the works looked as if they could have been intentional made to be a screensaver on a desk or laptop.

Farther into the video soma some graphics are shown. Among these were moving images the came for the foreground and disappeared into the background. As these images are traveling music is being played. The tone of the music as well the movement of the graphics sends you into a whole different world.

Late in the video the graphics seem to more flat but yet they still had their own spin. They give the viewer a very urban vibe with graffiti like graphics moving on brick and cement walls.

I enjoyed both of video and really enjoyed the whole motion graphic aspect. These artists bring life to still graphics and I think that it’s really a refreshing look.

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