why I love designers

“…it’s an incurable, if not mortal disease. I can’t explain it. I just like looking at type. I get a total kick out of it. They are my friends. Other people look at bottles of wine or girls' bottoms, I get kicks out of looking at type.” --Erik Spiekermann (via Subtraction)

Why Man Creates (nope, not getting all philosophical just yet)

Brilliant.

Somehow the name Saul Bass never stuck with me, or I never even heard it go by. He's done close to 60 title sequences for films (lots of Hitchcock), movie posters, logos (one of the old really well known AT&T 'bells', the first AT&T globe logo years later, Girl Scouts of America). In short I should have figured out who he was a long time ago.

More samples of his work at the ever-present if somewhat untrustworthy wikipedia.

This is a 5 minute preview of a half hour short from the late 60s. I'd love to see the full length piece, but alas, Netflix hasn't copped on yet.