Vertigo

Vertigo is a series of generative compositions inspired on the works of Saul Bass, in particular the movie covers of Vertigo (1958), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Saul was the master of movie titles, and the father of “kinect typography”, the technique mixing text and animation to express an idea. The elegance and simplicity of Saul’s design is still of great influence to movie titles, graphic designs and typography.

Vertigo(1978)

My drawings started as a reproduction of the original Vertigo cover, and later expanded to reproductions of alternative posters as well. The pieces are named with Roman letters in no particular order.

The series

# Sample See live
Vertigo I Vertigo I Live sketch
Vertigo II Vertigo II OpenProcessing
Vertigo III Vertigo II OpenProcessing

OpenProcessing

Most of the compositions are published also in OpenProcessing here, which is an easier plaftorm to fiddle with the source code.

Saul Bass

See more of his work here