Brendan Dawes on Saul Bass

Well I wouldn’t say he inspires me like no other, as I have many people who inspire me – Charles Eames, Bill Buxton, Edward Tufte, Walter Murch to name just a few, but it’s true to say that I have been fascinated with his work for a long time. What I admired is how he managed to distill the feel of a movie down to seemingly simple graphical forms that he then combined with beautiful use of timing and composition. By the act of removal and simplification he was able to communicate more clearly. So when I was starting to play with Flash I studied Saul Bass’s work in the hope that some of that magic would rub off, not just in motion graphic pieces but in the flow of interaction within things like interface design, which is very dependent on the use of time.

Interview with Brendan Dawes (n.d.) Interview with Brendan Dawes, designtaxi.com. Available at: http://designtaxi.com/article.php?article_id=100536 (Accessed: 28 October 2014).

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