Sci-Fi-O-Rama

A slick example of 80’s inspired Minimalism/Abstraction with a definite games flavour from Australian Artist/Designer Dan McPharlin simple - but effective.

Art Sourced from Dan’s Flickr feed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danmcp/

Leo and Diane Dillon Nine Hundred Grandmothers

I’ll add some notes soon…

A Disco-esque Sci-fi flyer produced for the 1980 Bally Midway Pinball Machine “Xenon”.  See The Internet Pinball Database for more info and a full gallery of this machine in all it’s glitzy glory.

Artwork Sourced from The Internet Pinball Database, excellent resource for Data mining absolutely anything related to all things Pinball. http://www.ipdb.org/

Philip Castle Airflow

Another sample from the portfolio of retro airbrush master Philip Castle. Judging by the livery of the jet in the top right,  I’m guessing the image is a promotional piece for the “Blue Angels” that’s the US equivalent of the Uk’s “Red Arrows” - basically fighter jets performing formation acrobatic stunts.

I’ve borrowed this scan from a more extensive library of his work at: http://www.images2k6.com/supercoll/pcastle1.htm The original art is scanned from Philips Castle’s 1980 anthology “Airflow”.

Sci-Fi Art from Melvyn Grant, another British Sci-Fi and fantasy Artist who’s career span’s back to the Seventies. Since that period Grant’s produced many Sci-fi and Fantasy’s Illustrations, successfully making the transition from traditional to digital media, and also holds the honourable accolade of Illustrating Iron Maiden infamous “Eddie” character on not one but two of their Album sleeves.

Read a little more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvyn_Grant Artist’s home page: http://www.melgrant.com/

Scan Taken from Paper Tigers 1977 release“The Flights of Icarus”.

Book Cover art from the amazing Bob Pepper, dating from 1963. A Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by the Scottish writer David Lindsay. First published in 1920, it combines fantasy, philosophy and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence - read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Voyage_to_Arcturus

Image sourced via Flickr User: LarsPowderdry http://www.flickr.com/photos/21631299@N07/