Hollandazed: Thoughts, Ideas, and Miscellany — Saul Bass
COVER STORY - AGRICOLA, MASTER OF BRITAIN (by Tom Russell)
My first love was the cinema, and so it's probably no surprise that I have a great deal of affection for, and draw a great deal of inspiration from, great movie posters. I'm a big fan of the Polish school, but my favorites, hands-down, are the work of the legendary Saul Bass. Bass is a hugely influential designer-- so much so that there are lots of posters that are so "Bass-like" that you might think Bass did them. Take, for example, the poster that Jouineau Bourduge did for Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: Really, almost everything I try to do in my...