Luigi Colani (b.1928)
Wiki.
German Wiki.
Website.
Architonic Gallery.
Gallery 2.
Concept Trucks by Colani.


Ylem, 1968.

Swivelling armchair, 1969.

TV Relax chaise longue, 1969.

“Drop” teapot, 1970.

Standing lamp, 1970.

Spherical kitchen, 1968-1971



Hydrofoil, with external observation/control cabin, 1973.

Space Shuttle study for NASA.

Hanse Colani Rotor House.

Colani-UFO, A converted pit-head winding tower.

BMW M2 Windtunnel prototype 1981.

Interview.

Exhibition (More videos here).

Mini Me: The Birth Of Kids' Fashion In The Boutique Era.
Link.
Article.

Via Style.com:
"The children's designer clothing market is a lucrative one, which is one reason everyone from Marc Jacobs to Cheap Monday is getting in on the downsized action. It's hardly a new idea, though. Like so much else in fashion that we now take for granted—miniskirts, boho chic—it got started in the sixties. Mini Me: The Birth of Kids' Fashion in the Boutique Era, an exhibit that opens at Pollock's Toy Museum in London tomorrow, looks at how brands like Biba and Cacharel convinced parents that their offspring should look as cool they did (Barbara Hulanicki, the creative genius behind Biba, even sold diapers color-coordinated to match mummy's outfit). If you're wondering where all those miniature rock T-shirts you see everywhere came from, you'll find the answer here."

Pollock's Toy Museum
Scala Street,
London
W1T 2HL
011-44-207-636-3452, September 14 through 29.

Jim Steranko: My Heart Broke in Hollywood.
Jim Steranko's final interior art for Marvel Comics; “My Heart Broke in Hollywood” (Our Love Story #5, June 1970).
Script by Stan Lee, Art by Jim Steranko. Cover art by John Romita.
Reprinted in 'Marvel Visionaries: Jim Steranko'.

Jean-Claude Forest (1930-1998).
Website.
Lambiek.
Wiki.
Bébé Cyanure et Hypocrite.

In 1962 George Gallet, editor of France's most popular line of science fiction paperbacks, Le Rayon Fantastique, asked the imprint's leading cover artist Jean-Claude Forest to create a new, "no holds barred", strip for the 'adult' V-magazine which Gallet also edited.

The result was Barbarella (her likeness modeled on Brigitte Bardot), France's first female comic strip character since WW2 and the country's first space hero.

Two years later fantasy and erotica publisher Eric Losfeld (also publisher of Guy Peelaert's early work) collected these strips, selling 200,000 copies. A movie follwed in 1967, with Forest as visual consultant.



During his career Forest created many comic strips, including Bébé Cyanure ('Baby Cyanide', so called due to her previous eight boyfriend's high mortality rate), a kind of 'junior Barbarella' and Hypocrite, a daily strip cartoon created to attract a young, hip readership to the then-stuffy France-Soir newspaper.

Bébé Cyanure (1965) Selected Panels (complete strip here ):






Hypocrite et le Monstre du Loch Ness (1971). Selected Panels (complete strip here):

Guy Peellaert (b. 1934).
Website.
Lambiek.
Pravda/Jodelle article.



Belgian advertising illustrator Guy Peellaert was one of the first cartoonists to embrace Pop Art and incorporate Andy Warhol's appropriation of mass market iconography into his work. His first comic, Les aventures de Jodelle, (Jodelle's likeness based after yé-yé chanteuse Sylvie Vartan) appeared in 1966, swiftly followed by 'Pravda la Survireuse' (her visage modelled after Françoise Hardy) for the magazine 'Hara-Kiri' in 1967.
Peellaert recently art directed this animation, based on 'Pravda'.

Selected Pages from Pravda:









In addition to his regular comics work, Peellaert designed a number of record sleeves and in 1967 created images for the movie Jeu de Massacre (aka 'Comic Strip Movie', aka 'The Killing Game'), directed by Alain Jessua, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel & Claudine Auger.






After contributing a number of photo collage-based style strips to 'Hara-Kiri', Peellaert adopted a photo-realistic airbrush style and made a successful return to advertising and illustration; most notably on David Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs' LP cover and 'Rock Dreams', his collaboration with rock journalist Nick Cohn.

Amanda Visell: Popping through Pictures
Popping through Pictures is the first of hopefully many picture books from illustrator Amanda Visell.
A stop-motion animator on movies such as Elf, Amanda operates as one half of The Girls Productions* alongside the equally talented Michelle Valigura, contributing to Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean 40th Anniversary celebrations and The Vader project amongst many other activities.
Amanda’s cute but classic artwork recalls the work of 50s Disney concept artists Mary Blair & Eyvind Earle and Pixar’s Lou Romano.





*They also have a blog.

Fantastic Planet/ La Planète Sauvage (1973).
Wiki.
Youtube Link.
Version Française.

Creepy and unsettling French sci-fi animation featuring a very groovy score by Alan Gorageur, arranger for Serge Gainsbourg and France Gall during the early part of both their careers.
Designed and co-scripted by illustrator and novelist Roland Topor, author of 'The Tenant'.

From Wiki:
"Fantastic Planet is the English title of La Planète sauvage (literally "The Savage Planet") an animated 1973 science fiction film directed by René Laloux. The film was an international production between France and Czechoslovakia and has been distributed in the United States by Roger Corman. It won the special jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. The story is based on a novel, Oms en série, by the French writer Stefan Wul."
Part 1.

Part 2.

Part 3.

Part 4.

Part 5.

Part 6.

Part 7.

Part 8.

Miyuki Morimoto.
Portfolio.










Thanks be to Shane for the link.