Cover Art for a later edition of Alfred Bester’s Classic Sci-Fi Novel “Tiger! Tiger!” originally published in 1956.
Artist is Adrian Chesterman - http://www.chestermanart.com/
Scan via Flickr User Seriykotik1970 originally spotted via the SciFi Books Pool, a great source of inspiration I’ve featured from many times http://www.flickr.com/groups/22742217@N00/pool/
A classic striking Poster dating from 1964 by Polish Graphic Designer and Cartoonist Jan Lenica (1928 -2001).
Some more of Jan’s Posters here: http://www.poster.com.pl/lenica.htm A little more on his career here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lenica and part of his stop motion animated 1987 film: Ubu et la grande Gidouille http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQSqtj1NUjk must be a VHS rip, so not great but the audio’s ace!
Here’s something I spotted on FFFFound a while back and bookmarked, super freaky techno spirtualism! courtesy of Brasilian Illustrator / Artist Bruno 9li (AKA Bruno Novelli) – this character an off-the-wall, underwater mix of Afrika Bambaataa Planet Rock, Shiva and erm Tron! Not just a great style, but also a great demonstration of how even with just a few frames it’s possible to breath life into an Illustration via the simple medium of an animated GIF loop – clever stuff indeed!
See much more of Bruno’s random and chaotic style’s at : http://www.bruno9li.com check out the videos section too!
Also of interest: a quick flick through of his book ‘Agora Eterno’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3p61kz2T8Y alas this seems a little hard to get hold of? is out of print?
‘Outer Space’ an early sample of the art of Peter Max a German born American Artist made famous during the 60’s for his Iconic ‘Cosmic Art’ Poster’s, the most famous of these being his technicolor ‘Love’ print, see that here.
More on Peter and his Illustrious, high-flying career at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Max
Scan taken from the 1975 Book ‘A Concise History of Posters’ compiled by John Barnicoat.
I’ve been running a little bit low on original Blog resource material until yesterday when a trip to my local antiques centre yielded a selection of this obscure magazine publication ‘Man Myth & Magic’ with it’s tagline’s: ‘An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural’ & ‘The most Unusual Magazine ever Published’
Man Myth & Magic was a UK based publication that ran for 112 weekly issue’s starting in 1970 – as mentioned the magazine feature’s many Illustration’s ranging from quirky woodcut’s of Ye-olde spooky folklore; Werewolf’s, Witches’s, Demon’s through to double page spread reprint’s and analysis of the work of master Artist’s/Illustrator’s such as Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grunewald, Aubrey Beardsley and many more…
The cover art used here is Teutonic Mythology ’Siegfried Killing The Dragon’ taken from a 19th century German edition of nibelungenlied.
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