Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 -- April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning film-maker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences.
Saul Bass was the master of the title sequence, working on such films as Anatomy of a Murder, North by Northwest and Goodfellas.
Saul Bass trained as a graphic designer, and was commissioned by director Otto Preminger to put together a poster for his 1954 opera/musical. Preminger was so impressed he asked him to create a title sequence too, and Bass went on to specialise in the area.
Opening title for Martin Scorsese's Casino by Saul Bass.
“I had the opportunity the other day to screen a reel of Richard’s work, and I was amazed at the uniformly high quality of his work. The fact is, he’s the only guy around whose work I wish I had done.”
Richard Greenberg is a motion graphics and main titles
designer from Chicago.
He has a BA in industrial design and an MFA in graphic
design. After teaching at both the University of Illinois and the Institute of
Design in Chicago, he created a short film entitled Stop, filmed at the 1968 Chicago
Democratic Convention. After Stop won first prize at the New York Film Festival
Student Competition, Richard got a job working under Pablo Ferro in New York.
In 1977, he started R/Greenberg Associates with his brother Robert.
During his R/GA period, he was responsible for the main titles for Superman,
Alien, The World According to Garp, Altered States, Dirty Dancing, Death
Becomes Her, and The Untouchables, as well as visual effects work on Predator
and The Devil’s Advocate. His work with Stan Winston for Predator earned them
an Academy Award nomination for visual effects in 1987. In 1989, he directed a
feature film called Little Monsters.
In 1991, Richard moved to Hollywood and formed
Greenberg/Schluter with Bruce Schluter and together they designed the main
titles for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Independence Day, the Lethal Weapon series,
and The Matrix. Many of his works are documented in the permanent collections
of museums including The Art Institute of Chicago, MOMA, and The Louvre
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