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Comments Off on Brimful of Sixties Record Adverts
Now in its 5th year, the annual Record Store Day has become something of an international phenomenon. Falling every year on the 3rd Saturday of April it is a celebration of all the good things your local record store can supply you with (mainly vinyl records)...
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Comments Off on John Solie’s Movie Posters
During his long career John Solie has illustrated over 200 film posters. The Californian artist has created art work for some major films, like the academy award winning Ryan’s Daughter and the cult classic Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston. In...
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Comments Off on Neil Fujita – Innovative Graphic Designer
One of our esteemed readers recently suggested we take a look at the work of S. Neil Fujita and being as our readers have such good taste we decided to take this advice on board. Little did we know quite how much truly iconic work this man has created so it...
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Comments Off on Comic Book Genius – Guy Peellaert’s Pop Art
“Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America – except that Guy had more talent!” – Jim Steranko (American comic book artist, art historian, publisher and film production illustrator). In March 2012 we featured the work of...
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Comments Off on The Art of Jazz – David Stone Martin
Now as you may have gathered, here at VoEA we are big fans of the format that is vinyl records. There are many reasons that we won’t go into today but one of them is definitely the cover art. Not all vinyl records have fantastic cover art, in fact many...
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Comments Off on Rock Dreams – Artwork of Guy Peellaert
Belgian artist Guy Peellaert is the man responsible for the album cover of ‘Diamond Dogs’ by David Bowie – the one where he’s been illustrated as a half-man, half-dog creature. He also produced the artwork for the Rolling Stones...
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Comments Off on Younger Than Today – Retro Kids Book Illustrations
What a wonderful collection we have for you today….. Kids book illustrations from the 60’s and 70’s, mainly mid to late 60’s, and by various artists, which we may feature in more depth in the future. But for now, we just thought...
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Comments Off on The Hippest Girl in The World and The Citroen
Here’s a comic featuring the “Go-Go wonder of Paris with a heart made of vinyl” (not sure how that works) and a colourful Citroen booklet from the sixties.The psychedelic illustrations for both of these publications come from the...
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Comments Off on Stick With It – Seventies Sticker Art
Ahh yes, the humble sticker. Some say the first stickers were invented by the Ancient Egyptians to advertise the daily rates of products on the walls of their souks and bazaars...
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Comments Off on Fifteen Illustrated Film Tie-in Book Covers
These film tie-in book covers are from different decades.They’re all different genres, from Mod favourite Quadrophenia to kitchen sink drama Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. The only thing they all have in common is – They are all...
