Rene Barjavel - La Noche De Los Tiempos Light
Adapted cover art for the book “Barjavel René La Noche de los Tiempos” written by René Barjavel - not sure of the artist here…
Image sourced via Flickr user bermoraca @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bermoraca/2202719860/
This striking Photomontage/Collage from Dutch illustrator and painter Karel Thole (April 20, 1914 - March 26, 2000) is an example of one of his many covers commissioned for the long running Italian Science Fiction Magazine “Urania”.
Read more about Karel Thole here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Thole and Urania Magazine here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urania_(magazine)
A really good resource for an extensive library of Karel’s Retro-Scifi-Surrealism is here http://www.mondourania.com/index.htm recommended!
Image Sourced via flickr User Leekelso http://www.flickr.com/photos/leekelso/384042879/
Roman Cieslewicz - The Girls From Wilko
Poster Art from late Polish graphic design maestro Roman Cieslewicz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Cieslewicz
Dan McPharlin - /
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/
The cover of a 1976 Spanish compedium of ‘Ciencia ficcion’ (Science Fiction). Image sourced from http://ahi-va.blogspot.com/
An interesting image, the top figure looks like an early experiment in computer animation, artist unknown sorry.
Another vintage book cover sourced via coverbrowser.com, this time an early Philip K Dick Novel. I’ve picked this out not just for the eiree landscape (could be the bottom of the sea) but also for the Tech/Disco Typeface, if I was a graphics student again I’d be ripping this off!
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Cover for the Stanislaw Lem Book “Solaris”. A slow burning Sci-Fi ghost story, converted to the screen as a Russian feature film (1974) then again by Steven Soderbergh (2002) staring George Clooney. Sorry no information on the cover artist.
A book cover designed by the late Scottish Italian Artist Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 – 2005) . Starting out working with collage’s of found object Paolozzi came to public attention in the 1960’s producing striking Screen Prints, and he also worked as a Sculptor. Paolozzi’s work is akin to the Pop Art movement of the time, although he described his work as Surrealist.
Read more about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Paolozzi He’s one of my favourite artist’s s I’ll be posting more up soon…
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