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I have just watched Ocean's Eleven and was impressed by the titles so I watched the credits and saw the name Saul Bass. I checked Wikipedia out of interest but I did not find a reference to this film (please correct me if I am wrong) so I suggest it is added to the body of work. The titles seemed to me to be very original, in tune with the feel of the film and well ahead of their time(1960). 85.189.168.57 03:15, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Quote? 2 Whats wrong with GIFs??? 3 Pronunciation unknown? 4 Neutrality 5 {{cleanup}} 6 logos 7 "Design Not Used"

[edit] Quote?

Where is the source for the quote? It's a great quote, so where's the source? -- .~.

I didn't add the quote, but I found the source and added it.--Weakmassive 19:17, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Whats wrong with GIFs???

They're perfect for these logos. Why waste your time changing them to PNGs?, and in the process uploading incorrect versions of the logos, such as what you did w/ the 1985 AT&T logo?

Hey, now. I only did one error and it is the 1985 AT&T logo. It is only one incorrect version. :-P Someone pointed it out to me and I only reverted the AT&T article not the Saul Bass article because I forgot. I only uploaded/replaced two items on this list and the Bell system is identical to the one I replaced. The reason I replaced with GIFs because to follow the majority of Wikipedia's organziation logo images that are transparent PNG image format to provide flexiblity on editing articles. It is better to use PNG transparent because it would provide a smoother looking icon on a transparent background compare to GIF. Here are examples of transparent PNG that are not uploaded by me, Image:Microsoft.png, Image:Apple-logo.png, Image:Citigroup logo.png, Image:AMD logo.png and Image:Intel 2006.png. Anyways, there is your answer. If you want to discuss an image, you should place on the discussion tab not on the image summary. --J. Nguyen 06:49, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation unknown?

Do people agree with the leading parenthetical phrase "(. . . pronunciation of name unknown)"? I thought there was only one way to pronounce the names "Saul" and "Bass". --DylanW 06:59, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Saul does the commentary for the DVD of Spartacus and, while I haven't the DVD to hand with me, I am pretty sure that he introduces himself in it: therein lies the pronunciation!

Wowser (talk) 23:40, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

On a YouTube video[1], one guy called him Saul Bass (as in the fish) -Islandtimes (talk) 03:25, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Neutrality

The syntax of this article strikes me as pretty biased — "...innovative, revolutionary work...", "...visually splendid..." — and I personally think it aught to be neutralized. Just a thought. Discuss? — zorkmid ^EA 22:40, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{cleanup}}

With all the fair-use images, a Wikipedian image gallery this is not. — pd_THOR ^{| =/\=} | 03:57, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

The gallery is showing an overview of this man's work. What's wrong with that? X570 17:45, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

This article is about Saul frickin' Bass. He was important because of what he did. And what did he do? Frickin' awesome graphic designs. So this frickin' page needs a decent number of frickin' company logos by Saul frickin' Bass! - Stormwatch 06:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Who deleted all the logos that were used in the gallery? -jca2112 19:11, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] logos

I'd also like to know what happen to the logos, as I worked very hard researching and uploading the proper versions most of the logos shown. What a shame this article once had an exhaustive overview of this man's work that's now gone. I'm not doing all that work again, those days of having time for that stuff is gone! X570 03:51, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

There's a bunch here: [2]

And that kind of thing also pisses me off. I uploaded loads of game covers, it was a hassle to find and upload them, in some cases I had to do some editing to compensate damaged covers and bad scanning, and some of them were deleted because I didn't write a fair use rationale. Then what are those goddamned tags good for?! Isn't it obvious that it is fair use to put a game's cover on the article about that game?

And I see the point of trying to replace fair use images with free ones if they are available, but twice I saw it happen, and twice the free were junk in comparison. First, a pic of singer Roberto Carlos, the fair use one was recent, and the free one was a yellowed b&w pic from thirty-something years ago. Another of Steve Jobs' keynote about the Intel transition. The fair use one was fine, the free one was a blurred mess. - Stormwatch 22:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I know what you mean, I too, spent a great deal of effort cleaning up some of those logos, as well. At the time I was attending community college and had access to modern computers capable of running Photoshop at reasonable speeds. With my 7 year old IBM Thinkpad P3/128MB RAM laptop it would be a real pain to go through that again. Also the page you linked is full of inaccuracies, such as it has the AT&T logo that was changed from Bass's original design in the late 90s or early 00s, and the Exxon trademark didn't even exist in 1966. The work I did was completely accurate and with the highest quality and most accurate logos I could find. If I remember correctly, a couple I even scanned in myself. X570 03:51, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Design Not Used"

Noticed that several movie posters listed in his bio are now labelled as "design not used" (is this referenced?) -- if that is the case, those entries need to be removed or moved to a different list rather than a "published works" type listing. As it stands now, it is inaccurate and will create confusion. --jca2112 18:27, 2 March 2007 (UTC)