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I’ve now completely finished my 5000 word dissertation! Printed and bound too (here it is) ready to hand in monday morning! But anyway I’ll keep posting some of the designers and illustrators I’ve been researching, because I said I’d have a Mid-Century Modern themed week.
Record covers by designer/illustrator Jim Flora, who worked for Columbia in the 1940s and RCA in the 1950s. Very prolific and one of the first designers after Alex Steinweiss to work on graphical record sleeves. His artistic and illustrative style fell out of fashion unfortunately when photography became more common. Interestingly if you do a google image search for Jim Flora one of the related searches is Jon Burgerman, definite similarities between their work, I had never made a connection between them before. You can see more Jim Flora designs on his website http://jimflora.com/ or in the book The Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim Flora.
You can see all my dissertation research images, with sources, at the blog I created especially; http://midcenturymoderndesign.tumblr.com/
