- Drew Struzan
Drew Struzan (born 1947) is an American artist. Struzan has painted album covers, advertising, collectibles, and book covers, but he is best known for his extensive movie poster work. Popularly known by his signature first name on his work, Struzan is one of the industry's most recognized talents, having provided artwork for over 150 movie posters, including many of the best-known films of all time.
- Robbie Conal
Robbie Conal is an American guerilla poster artist noted for his gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures of note. A former hippie, he is noted for his use of snipes to distribute his poster art throughout a city overnight. Conal's parents were both union organizers, and he grew up in Manhattan. He received his bachelor's degree in fine arts from San Francisco State University in 1968 and his MFA from Stanford University in 1978.
- John Alvin
John Alvin (Born in Mass. USA 1948) is an award-winning artist who has illustrated some of the world's most recognized movie posters. Alvin graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and became a freelance artist. His first movie art campaign was for Mel Brook's "Blazing Saddles" (1974), Since 1974, Alvin has created artwork for more than 125 film campaigns for New Line Cinema, Warner Bros.
- Wes Wilson
Robert Wesley Wilson (b. July 15, 1937) is an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters. Most well known for designing posters for Bill Graham of the The Fillmore in San Francisco, he invented a style that is now synonymous with the peace movement, psychedelic era and the 1960s.
- Rick Griffin
Richard Alden Griffin (June 18, 1944 - August 18, 1991) was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. He was also a contributor to the underground comix movement whose work appeared regularly in Zap Comix. Griffin was closely identified with the Grateful Dead, having designed some of their best known posters and record jackets. He was also known for his work within the surfing subculture, …
- Saul Bass
Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 - April 25, 1996) was a graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences, which is thought of as the best such work ever seen. During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese.
- Jay Ryan
Jay Ryan is an artist and rock musician. He is noted for his squirrel posters as well as being a bassist in the band Dianogah. Based in Chicago, Ryan produces limited run, hand-printed posters for rock bands and concerts, and for events such as art shows. Much of his work is screen printed at his studio, The Bird Machine. He is also responsible for the album art and track illustrations of Andrew Bird's The Mysterious Production of Eggs.
- Shepard Fairey
Frank Shepard Fairey is a contemporary artist/graphic designer/illustrator. He usually goes under his middle and last name, Shepard Fairey. He is most noted for being the artist who, while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1989, created the "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, which has evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign, and can now be seen all over the world.
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (November 24, 1864 - September 9, 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the decadent and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an "oeuvre" of provocative images of modern life.
- Victor Moscoso
Victor Moscoso (born 1936) is an American illustrator and comic book artist, especially noted for his work in the late 1960s as a designer of psychedelic art and concert posters (many for The Fillmore) and as a contributor to underground comix (he is among the artists who regularly appear in Zap Comix).
- Leonetto Cappiello
Leonetto Cappiello (b. 1875 in Livorno, Italy; d. 1942 in Cannes, France) was an Italian poster art designer who lived in Paris. He is now often called "the father of modern advertising." Cappiello had no formal training in art. The first exhibition of his work was in 1892, when a painting was displayed at the municipal museum in Florence. Cappiello started his career as a caricaturist illustrating in journals like Le Rire, "Le Cri de Paris", "Le Sourire", …
- Gary Grimshaw
Gary Grimshaw is a graphic artist and poster designer specializing in the music business. A Vietnam War veteran, he was active in the anti-war movement and the White Panther Party.
- Alton Kelly
Alton Kelley is an American artist best known for his psychedelic art, in particular his designs for 1960s rock concerts and albums. Along with artists Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso and Wes Wilson, Kelley founded the Berkeley Bonaparte distribution agency in order to produce and sell psychedelic poster art. Along with fellow artist Stanley Mouse, Kelley is credited with creating the skull and roses image for the Grateful Dead.
- Jules Chéret
Jules Chéret was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of poster art. Often called the "father of the modern poster."
- Derek Hess
Derek Hess is an American poster artist based in Cleveland, Ohio. His creative career grew largely out of his ability to express the emotion in the indie, hardcore and hard rock scenes of the mid-1990s. His posters are known for humor and irony, with the subject matter frequently using the name of the band as inspiration. His work is well known to devotees of album-cover art and concert flyer art. He has produced artwork for musicians such as Season to Risk, The Cows, …
- James Montgomery Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg (June 18, 1877 - May 27, 1960) was an American artist and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his posters. Flagg was born in Pelham Manor, New York. He was enthusiastic about drawing from a young age, and had illustrations accepted by national magazines by the age of 12 years. By 14 he was a contributing artist for Life Magazine, …
- John van Hamersveld
John Van Hamersveld (born 1941, Baltimore) was responsible for many of the recognizable pop art images of the 1960s and 1970s including album covers, concert posters and the classic movie poster for "The Endless Summer". Van Hamersveld also created the "grinning Johnny" image. He is said to be the inspiration for what later became the Rolling Stones' "tongue logo".
- Mark Arminski
Mark Arminski is an American rock concert poster artist. He was sued by the bands Phish and the Dave Matthews Band over claims that he sold copies of posters produced for the two bands. The lawsuits were reported in several newspapers. Rob Maniscalco, portrait artist and producer of Detroit Public TV show Art Beat, who has interviewed Mark Arminski on his show, wrote the following words of introduction. Named "Artist of the Year" by Visions magazine, …
- Adolphe Mouron Cassandre
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre was an influential Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer. Born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron in Kharkov, Ukraine to French parents, as a young man, Cassandre moved to Paris, France where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Académie Julian. Needing to earn a living, the popularity of posters as advertising afforded him an opportunity to work for a Parisian printing house.
- Paul Colin
Paul Colin was a French poster designer and a lover of Josephine Baker. The Art Deco poster he designed to publicize her "La Revue Nègre" launched his career. He produced about a thousand posters and hundreds of stage sets. His illustrations graced her memoirs, published in 1927.
- Achille Mauzan
Lucien Achille Mauzan was born on the French Riviera, but moved to Italy in 1905, known as a decorative illustrator designing during the Art Deco movement, though he also painted and sculpted. After a period of study in the “École des Beaux-Arts” at Lyon, France, Mauzan divided his life between Milan, Paris and Buenos Aires. Between the years 1920 and 1940, the period between the wars, he used forms and materials under the influence of the avant-garde cubists.
- Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta (born February 9,1928) is one of the world's most influential fantasy and science fiction artists. He is one of the most emulated artists of these genres in the world.
- Henryk Tomaszewski
Henryk Tomaszewski was born in Warsaw, then Russian Empire in 1914. *1939 Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts *1952 - 1985 Professor at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts *Member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI) *Granted the title of Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by Royal Society of Arts in London *Works in poster, satirical cartoon, drawing, illustration *2005 Passed away
- Marco Almera
Marco Almera (born November 1969) is a Southern California Artist. His work centers around the Southern Calfiornia themes of Surfing, Punk and Rock Music, Hot Rods, Religion, and Pin-up girls. Originally creating album covers and rock posters, he has moved into the medium of Fine Art and freestyle graphics. Almera's work includes album covers for Dropkick Murphys and posters for Gwar, The Misfits, Sublime, and Turbonegro.
- Jean Carlu
Jean Carlu made posters during World War II to promote increase in American production.
- John Howard
John Howard is an artist and illustrator based in the San Francisco Bay Area and is noted for hand-drawn limited-edition screen printed concert posters. Starting in 1994 John designed posters for local venues like The Fillmore and the Great American Music Hall. Many of these posters can be found in the "The Art Of Modern Rock" (Chronicle Books) A member of the American Poster Institute, John is a regular exhibitor at their Flatstock events, …
- Richard Amsel
Richard Amsel was an American illustrator and graphic designer. Amsel’s career started while he was a student at the Philadelphia College of Art. Though barely in his twenties, his proposed poster art for the Barbra Streisand musical "Hello Dolly" was selected by 20th Century Fox for the film’s campaign after a nationwide artists’ talent search. Amsel quickly emerged as one of the leading movie poster artists of the 1970’s, …
- Jim Franklin
Jim Franklin (born 1943) is an artist best known for his poster art created for the Armadillo World Headquarters, a former Austin, Texas music hall. Franklin was born in Galveston, Texas and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. Returning to Texas, he teamed with musicians and artists to open a psychedelic music hall in Austin, called the Vulcan Gas Company. Franklin lived in the club and was its primary poster artist for bands such as Shiva's Headband, …
- Robert McGinnis
Robert E. McGinnis (born 1926) is an American illustrator known for his illustrations of paperback book covers and movie posters, including "Breakfast at Tiffanys", "Barbarella", and several "James Bond" films. McGinnis created cover illustrations for the 2004 Hard Case Crime paperback series. He is a member of the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame http://societyillustrators.org/honors/hof/index.cms.
- Greg Irons
Greg Irons (September 29, 1947 - November 14, 1984) was a poster artist, underground cartoonist, animator and tattoo artist. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he moved to San Francisco, California in 1967 where he soon found work doing posters for Bill Graham at the Fillmore Auditorium.
- Gilbert Shelton
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940, Houston, Texas) is an American cartoonist and underground comix artist. He is the creator of "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers", "Fat Freddy's Cat", "Wonder Wart-Hog", "Not Quite Dead" and the cover art to The Grateful Dead's 1978 album "Shakedown Street". He graduated from Lamar High School in Houston.
- John Hassall
John Hassall was born in Walmer, Kent on 21 May 1868, died 8 March 1948 and was an English illustrator. Hassall educated in Worthing, at Newton Abbot College and at Neuenheim College, Heidelberg. After twice failing entry to The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he emigrated to Manitoba in Canada in 1888 to begin farming with his brother Owen. He returned to London two years later when he had drawings accepted by the Graphic.
- Charley Harper
Charley Harper (1922 - June 10 2007) was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist. He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations. Born in West Virginia in 1922, Harper's upbringing on his family farm informed his work to his last days. He left his farm home to study art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and there he met his wife, artist Edie Harper, with whom he had a son, Brett. He later taught at the Art Academy.
- Guy Juke
Guy Juke aka De White (born 1951) has been an Austin, Texas based artist and musician since moving there in 1973 from nearby San Angelo, Texas. He started his career by writing and illustrating underground comics. As a poster artist he has created memorable imagery for nightclubs such as Armadillo World Headquarters along with "Michael Priest" and Jim Franklin. His work is recognized for its darkly detailed, often shadowy and angular figures inspired by horror films, …
- Gino Boccasile
Gino Boccasile (14 July 1901 - 10 May 1952) was an Italian illustrator. Born in Bari, Boccasile was the son of a perfumer. Early in his youth he lost his left eye when a drop of quicklime fell in it while he drank from a fountain. Nonetheless, he showed a precocious aptitude for design and completed studies at the fine art school of his home town. After the death of his father in 1925, he moved to Milan in order not to be a burden on his family.
- Mear One
Mear One, born 1971 as Kalen Ockerman in Santa Cruz, California, is a Los Angeles-based fine artist, famously known for his often-political street graffiti art. Commonly referred to as the 'Michelangelo' of graffiti, Mear One is commonly associated with CBS (Can't Be Stopped) and WCA (West Coast Artist) crews. As a graphic designer, Mear One has designed apparel for Conart, Kaotic, as well as his own Reform brand. Mear One has done album covers for artists like Limp Bizkit, …
- Alfons Mucha
Alfons Maria Mucha (or Alphonse Maria Mucha was a Czech painter and decorative artist.
- Norman Wilkinson
Norman Wilkinson CBE (1878 Cambridge -1971). was a British artist in oil, watercolour and drypoint, usually of marine subjects. An illustrator and poster artist, he also made an important contribution in both World Wars in the field of camouflage. Educated at Berkhamsted School of Art. In 1898 he started contributing to The Illustrated News and The Illustrated Mail which was the start of a long association.
- Tom Purvis
Tom Purvis (12 June 1888 - 27 August 1959) was a British painter and commercial poster artist. Purvis was born in Bristol, the son of sailor and marine artist TG Purvis. He studied at Camberwell School of Art and worked for six years at the advertising firm of Mather and Crowther before becoming a freelance designer. Purvis developed a bold, two-dimensional style using large blocks of vivid flat colour and eliminating detail.
- Jan Sawka