Elaine Bass joined Saul Bass & Associates in 1955, and a few years later, by the 60s, she was working on much of Saul Bass’s title design in collaboration with him. Some of his, and their work was:

 

-   Not With My Wife, You Don’t!

-   Goodfellas

-   Higher Learning

-   Ocean’s Eleven

-   The Cardinal

-   Vertigo

-   Big

-   Casino

-   Seconds

-   The Seven Year Itch

-   …and many more

Here is a video showcasing some of their work in opening title sequences:

 

 

Saul Bass was born in May of 1920 in New York, and soon came onto to be a graphic designer and an Oscar-winning filmmaker, known primarily for contributing most of his efforts towards title sequences. 

His career spanned 40 years, in which he was able to work for a few of Hollywood’s most prestigious filmmakers of the time (Billy Wilder, Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock and more). Despite being most well-known for his work in opening title sequences, Bass also designed some iconic logos for corporate company’s in the States, including AT&T and continental airlines.

 

He died at 75 from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996.

 

Elaine Bass was born in 1927 (also in New York) and married to Saul in 1961. She worked for 40 years beside Saul and was one of the main designers responsible for helping transform title sequences and short films into art forms.

 

 At the beginning of her career, Elaine worked in fashion, drawing up designs for several “fashion houses”. She decided to move from NYC, however, and ended up relocating in Los Angeles in 1947, moving there permanently in 1954.She found work there for Capitol Records, and she recalled: “After about a year I was looking for something more challenging when someone told me that Saul Bass was looking for an assistant. I had enjoyed the credits for ‘The Seven Year Itch’ very much but the name Saul Bass didn’t mean anything to me”. And so Elaine joined his office in 1955, and by 1959, Saul was distributing critical tasks to her. She was able to work on Spartacus (1960) as the co-designer of the title sequence. From here on, her career with Saul took off, taking a step back in the mid 60s-80s to focus on their children.