Illustration

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Rick Poynor|Essays

Speculative Fiction, Speculative Design

The cover of England Swings SF is one of those prescient imaginative leaps that vaulted so far it disappeared from the historical record.

Julie Lasky|Interviews

Between Two Convex Mirrors: A Conversation with Tomi Ungerer

Interview with illustrator and book artist Tomi Ungerer.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?

A DVD cover for the classic film noir Kiss Me Deadly uses the blindingly obvious symbol that just keeps on giving.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Unearthly Powers: Surrealism and SF

Richard Powers, auteur of the paperback cover, was a key figure linking science fiction and Surrealism.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Stewart Mackinnon: Ruptured and Remade

Why, at the height of his early success, did a brilliant British illustrator decide to walk away and what happened next?

Rick Poynor|Essays

Starowieyski’s Graphic Universe of Excess

In Franciszek Starowieyski’s posters, desire, sexuality, monstrosity, madness and death conjoin in some of the most outrageous images found in graphic design.

Rick Poynor|Essays

An Unknown Master of Poster Design

Karel Teissig might just be the best poster designer you have never heard of.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Shelf: Richard Neville’s Playpower

Martin Sharp’s cover design is a garden of queasily decadent delights where the joke is probably on the reader.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Gerd Arntz: Design Icon

Gerd Arntz: A design icon who designed icons.

Michael Bierut|Essays

At the Movies with Javier Mariscal

Chico & Rita is a new animated film by Spanish designer Javier Mariscal and director Fernando Trueba.

Rick Poynor|Essays

What Does H. P. Lovecraft Look Like?

In a gilded age of adaptations: films, TV series, theatrical productions, H. P. Lovecraft’s short novel At the Mountains of Madness, is re-envisioned for a new generation.

Debbie Millman|Slideshows