If any one person can be credited with having introduced the idea of “high concept”—the single striking image or pithy phrase that immediately sums up a creative work—to the movie industry, it would have to be Saul Bass.
From Philip Kemp’s short biography of Saul Bass.
Making dismembered body parts cool since 1959. The opening titles to Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder, by Saul Bass.
Portrait of Saul Bass by Harry Verstappen.
