SAUL BASS

As predicted, last night quickly turned into setting the world to rights followed by dire satanic nonsense and Carry On Up The Jungle.

God bless Terry Scott.

This morning we strolled along the Thames (impossible to find a decent veggie breakfast anywhere in SE1) and popped into The Design Museum to see the Saul Bass exhibit.



Annoying. A wealth of information, posters, photographs, interviews and of course title sequences but mangled badly by whoever organised it. For a start nothing was digital. The beautiful title sequences for The Man With The Golden Arm through to Casino were shown on crappy projection TVs, distorted and out of focus. The TV screens that filled the galleries were either soundless making the connection between Bass' work and the music impossible to see or worse just playing over the top of each other. Would a few dozen sets of headphones have broken the back? The exhibition is worth seeing but it's also worth doing properly.

Muppets.



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