The Chupa Chups logo as designed by Salvador Dalí in 1969.
Did Alan Aldridge’s 1969 illustration for The Beatles’ “Day Tripper” inspire the Rolling Stones’ logo (1971)?
Concept paintings by Mary Blair for Disney’s PETER PAN.
“I forget people after I kill them,” Peter Pan says in PETER & WENDY. Was that in the Disney version?
One of the great “lost movies”: in the 1960s, there was talk of making a live action Peter Pan movie with Audrey Hepburn as Peter Pan, Peter Sellers as Captain Hook, and Hayley Mills as Wendy. The world was robbed of something wonderful there…
Covers of vintage Dutch crime/thriller/mystery/horror novels. Now, I happen to be Dutch so I’ll translate the titles.
De jazzband van den duivel (THE DEVIL’S JAZZ BAND). What a magnificent title.
Het teeken van den dood (THE SIGN OF DEATH).
De doode hand (THE DEAD HAND).
Slangeneiland (SNAKE ISLAND) and Duel der maskers (DUEL OF THE MASKS).
De dood heeft lange benen (DEATH HAS LONG LEGS). Well, so do I.
All these and more, many more, can be found HERE.
—Me: “Uh, pink and yellow. 1960s. Graphic design. It’s for my blog.”
—Magic computer: “Coming up!”
Poster designs—or rather tentative sketches—by Tom Jung for RETURN OF THE JEDI and, last one, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
Olivetti ads by Italian graphic designer, Giovanni Pintori (1912-1999). The first one is from 1949, the others are late 1950s/early 1960s.
Sets from HOOK (1991), with designs by John Napier.
Concept/storyboard art by David Russell for BATMAN (1989).
Concept art for BATMAN (1989) by Bob Ringwood.