Schott’s Physica Curiosa
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This Won't Hurt A Bit
March 31, 2010 - 5:42 am
Tags: america, cartoon, collection, illustration, Medicine, {science}
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Medical Caricatures from 1736-1932 at Lowcountry Digital Library. Other than the fact that the guy has gout, I’d say the second illustration here is just for the risqué.
Felix Vallotton, Clair de lune, 1895
February 20, 2010 - 7:18 am
Tags: 1890s, art, painting
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The Takeo Takei Lab of Ornithology
February 8, 2010 - 4:13 am
Tags: art, art books, illustration, japanese, takeo takei
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Takeo Takei, 1974
Takeo Takei, 1967
Takeo Takei, 1968
Takeo Takei, 1969
Takeo Takei, 1970
Takeo Takei, 1973
If you want to buy all 139 handmade books by Takeo Takei and have $45,000 to spare, go here.
Click images to view enlarged.
This artist featured in previous posts:
–Takeo Takei – Children’s Day in Japan, 1936
–Forty-five thousand dollar leftovers
–Oedipus at Hiroshima
–Early 20th century Japanese magazine covers
–Early 20th century Japanese book covers
Japanese design in previous posts:
–Give Us Back Man – Japanese Graphic Design
–Japan’s First Illustrated Book
–Mad Men and Friends
–Yukihiko Tajima’s Gion Matsuri
–Eraserhead vs. Protractorhead
–The Wonders of Life on Earth – Yokoo details
The Dark Ledger
February 8, 2010 - 4:10 am
Tags: art, Books, expositions, Fantômas, Judex, Pulp, {drugs}, {illustrators}
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The boundless depths of Chris Mullen’s VTS site continue to yield treasures. The documentation for these pictures is somewhat vague but they seem to be illustrations for Fantômas stories which Mullen has grouped under the title The Dark Ledger, pa…
We have captured a most rare specimen of an extinct insect
February 2, 2010 - 3:01 am
Tags: Books, children's book, illustration, russian
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(detail of 2-page spread)
You can read a thorough summary of the famous 1929 play — not originally intended for children! — at SovLit. (And here are some fascinating images from the first staging.) The title of this post quotes from Max Hayward’s translation of the play (see The Bedbug and Selected Poetry).
I used a virtual Cyrillic keyboard to figure out the illustrator’s name. Because this important bit of information was hidden in the book, I had to type about fifty words before finding it — and so I basically learned the Cyrillic alphabet in the process. Good times.
Previously: Mummy was a robot, daddy was a small nonstick kitchen utensil
(detail of 2-page spread)
Secession posters
January 17, 2010 - 3:13 am
Tags: Alfred Roller, art, art nouveau, Design, Henri Privat-Livemont, Koloman Moser, Wes Wilson, Wilhelm Kåge, {psychedelia}
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Alfred Roller (1901 & 02).
A selection of posters for the Vienna Secession at Lawrence University’s Art of the Poster site. Alfred Roller’s stylised lettering on the poster below was famously adapted by Wes Wilson for his psychedelic designs…
Vintage Book Design in Poland
January 11, 2010 - 4:03 am
Tags: Books, covers, Design, polish
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from the collection of hipopotam [website / blog]
from the collection of hipopotam [website / blog]
from the collection of hipopotam [website / blog]
from the collection of hipopotam [website / blog]
from the collection of hipopotam [website / blog]
from the collection of hipopotam [website / blog]
I had major help for this fourth post of Polish book covers: I pulled some from the book collection of my friends at hipopotam and some from a Polish antiquarian bookstore found by Peacay at BibliOdyssey [see his twitter feed]. The rest were found at various online Polish bookstores.
I’ll be doing a lot more features with hipopotam this year.
Hover over each image for more information (though for many of the images I do not have more info).
Previously:
catch a fluttering santa this year!
December 15, 2009 - 6:57 pm
Tags: art
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The best time to find them is in the early evenings, just before dusk.
This was Jen and I’s Christmas card this year. You can click HERE for one of those coloring process vids of it.
Also, if you’re lucky, one might flutter down and give you a pre…
Illustration House auction this Saturday: Mary Blair and Gyo Fujikawa
December 7, 2009 - 9:11 pm
Tags: art, auction, Children's Books, Gyo Fujikawa, illustration, Illustration house, Mary Blair
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Mary Blair
I saw this concept art by mid-century animation designer Mary Blair on the wall at Illustration House the other day, and I was blown away by its jewel-like beauty. The colours really are as lovely as the jpg shows. According to the catalogu…
Abecederia
November 26, 2009 - 5:02 pm
Tags: ABC, Blexbolex, Books, Comics, illustration, Nobrow, Printing, Typography
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Nobrow is fast becoming my favourite small press outfit. They keep putting out fantastic small runs of illustrated books and comics, all of them beautifully printed.
The latest is an English translation of French comicker Blexbolex’s graphic novell…