Excellence in design

Good years for Kentucky State Fair posters.

Great design is timeless

Ignore my shoes, look at that great book cover.

Design brilliance

I found these two books in a thrift store yesterday.  They were book of the month club editions, most likely from the early 1970's.  I was blown away by the illustrations on the covers.  I've seen the PBS/BBC mini series they made from these books but I've never read them. If I can stop marveling over the brilliance of the spare clean illustrations I may try to read them.

Great graphic design

Examples of great design

I never cared much for this series but I love this cover.

Great design is timeless

The cover to the 1964 edition of the trade paperback The Doctor and the Devils.

Great design is timeless

A feast for the eyes

I love the blog called things magazine. It's a blog that has links to a lot of other blogs that feature kick ass eye popping pictures. Through it I found this blog which featured all these great pieces of modern art and graphic design:




And just a few minutes ago I found on things magazine the link to this blog which featured posts that highlighted the artists who did this great work:



I'm crushing hard on both those blogs and on things magazine.

If you love great illustration and great graphic design, then check out those blogs and keep your eye on things magazine.

Great design is timeless