Faux-Saul Bass

Neven Udovičić of Zagreb, Croatia, is a graphic designer, with a website called Geminarium. Just for the fun of it, he set himself the task of creating alternative movie posters for this year’s Oscar nominees. He limited himself to remixing the work of Saul Bass, rather than make something new. That restricted his options, but at the same time made the process of finding the solution of representing a movie visually somehow easier, he said. Some examples:

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Saul Bass posters

Saul Bass (1920-1996) was an acclaimed graphic designer, who designed film titles and film posters. Film.Com recently published a collection of "every significant movie poster Saul Bass ever designed." 

And, no, he didn't design the West Side Story poster, though he is often falsely credited with that one.

Such Good Friends (1971)

See the full collection here.