I'm taking a week off...TI will return on August 3...
Monday, 26 July 2010
Friday, 23 July 2010
Guest author David Roach concludes his description of the fabulous new book, Lifestyle Ilustrations of the '60s, just released in the UK and Europe by the new publishing house Fiell and edited by Rian HughesHopefully the book will stand as a fitting tribute to a great but little known era and the artists who helped define it, but I’m all too aware of how much more there is to discover. I was amazed when writing about the artists how difficult it...
Thursday, 22 July 2010
By guest author David RoachFor the book itself I was brought in as the historical expert (number one in a field of one as Mad magazine used to say!) but the driving force behind the project was artist, designer and all round rennaiscence man Rian Hughes who selected the images and designed the book.This his recollection of how the project came to be:“I'd first been aware of Coby Whitmore and Al Parker via Shane Gline's blog, and of course a bit later...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
By guest author David Roach* David continues his description of the fabulous new book, Lifestyle Ilustrations of the '60s, just released in the UK and Europe by the new publishing house Fiell and edited by Rian HughesMany of the best illustrations in British Womens magazines were American (and indeed, around half of the artwork in the collection is by American artists). Often these were reprints of works originally created for Cosmopolitan, McCalls...
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
By guest author David Roach* David continues his description of the fabulous new book, Lifestyle Ilustrations of the '60s, just released in the UK and Europe by the new publishing house Fiell and edited by Rian HughesThose with long memories might recall a posting I wrote a few years back about a number of British artists who were working back then , none of whom I had ever heard of before and who are now completely forgotten. This book will hopefully...
Monday, 19 July 2010
By guest author David Roach* This week, David describes how a momentous new book came about and gives us an exclusive sneak peek at its contents. - LeifThe estimable Mr. Leif Peng has very kindly allowed this week's installments of Today's Inspiration to be given over to some shameless self promotion so before we begin I want to apologise in advance for such naked hucksterism. There is a book, you see, edited by Rian Hughes with text by myself and...
Friday, 16 July 2010
Alex Gross has put together a website showcasing the art of illustrator Phil Hays.I really like Hays' work from the 1950s, when he was doing artwork like the examples shown here. On Alex's new Phil Hays website, you'll find a few examples from this early stage in the illustrator's career, but for the most part, the site showcase's Hays' later period, when he had dramatically altered his style.The change is quite startling and curious. Off the top...
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Last March I received a note from Steve Scott. It began, "I write a blog on author John D MacDonald, a guy who wrote hundreds of short stories for magazines of the forties and fifties, and I own a pile of old magazines containing his work.""Mostly I simply use scans of old covers -- ones I own or ones I found on the web -- but I occasionally do the inside magazine artwork if I can. I have to confess that I already nicked a couple of your scans...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Sheilah Beckett's son Sean Smith writes, "Dave Smart, the editor of Esquire, was a big fan of my mother and father's work and thought - as my mother was doing children's book work - she would be a natural for a holiday cover."(You can see the name of Sheilah's husband, J. Frederick Smith, listed in the cover's sidebar among that issue's art contributors)I asked Sean if this cover was an important one in Sheilah's career and he replied, "Yes it was...
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