A cinema lobby card for the 1950 film No Way Out designed by Paul Rand. Strangely he didn’t get to do the poster. That was left in the hands of Saul Bass…
POST SCRIPT
I was contacted by Richard C Evans who pointed that there was an additional lobby card belived to be designed by Erik Nitsche. So it would seem that Bass, Rand and Nitsche all worked on the No Way Out campaign. I wonder how they split the fee?
Richard also sent the poster below by Edward McKnight Kauffer designed several years before No Way Out and clearly an inspiration for Bass. Good to know that even our heros are not allways totally original...
Designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer
Richard also said that there was an additional lobby card belived to be designed by Erik Nitsche. So it would seem that Bass, Rand and Nitsche all worked on the No Way Out campaign. Very confussing. I wonder how they split the fee?
Above by designed by Paul Rand
Above by designed by Erik Nitsche