i like this kind of illustration:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2726/1471/1600/robertsrr.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2726/1471/1600/robertsht.jpg

and this:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2726/1471/1600/roberts2.jpg

Not done in the exact same style though. I know I've seen other stuff in that style before but can't place it.

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/blog/images/feb06/futurist.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/43/83900102_f723f6a606.jpg

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/stckhlmcnd/stage.jpg

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/gdeitch01.jpg

The good news is that Fantagraphics published a big hardcover of his jazz illustrations, you might even find it cheapish:

http://www.fantagraphics.com/cart/showcat.cgi?Category=Comics&SubCategory=Classic&PageNo=1

http://www.collectmad.com/MADCOVERSITE/miles_davis_horns.gif

http://www.deutsche-bank-art.com/art/05/assets/images/k19860952.jpg

I'm thinking maybe the work of Grosz infused with American jazz and French existentialism.

http://www.bennycarter.com/art/discos.jpg

http://www.bennycarter.com/art/disasp.jpg

http://peet.wordpress.com/files/2006/07/boingboing1.jpg

(to my amazement and delight, i see that this guy has all 4 original geralds up for free viewing. they're all great; the "planet moo" one is on my short list of greatest pieces of animation ever)

Has anyone said Jim Flora yet? There's a gallery of mainly album art here, or this is closer in style to the first image. Maybe not quite what you're after though.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811847314.01._SS400_SCLZZZZZZZ_V64359586_.jpg

(With apologies to the local bookstore: http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Modern-Design-1950s-Animation/dp/customer-reviews/0811847314 )

http://www.dnp.co.jp/gallery/artist/paul/paul2.jpg

http://www.biotope.biz/images/img-a1-04084000021.jpg

http://youworkforthem.com/images/print/P0132/P0132_01.jpg

http://www.today.ucla.edu/2004/images/040210_randcover.jpg

http://www.library.yale.edu/NotaBene/rand.jpg

http://www.practise.co.uk/artwork/practise-air-mobile.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/4c/91px-UPSLogo.png

the fact that it has been replaced by this:

http://www.stabilo-direkt.de/ebaydata/bilder/ups_logo.gif

saddens and angers me.

i've noticed that the gap has gone back to its old logo (the very round bubbly helvetica letters), which i've always liked much much much much better.

Sorry to derail this thread. Carry on.

Design Crimes: corporations ditching classic logos for newer logos that are duds

anyway we need more threads like this.

http://www.roseking.org/Images/LHAS_cartoon.jpg

can i post a different style and ask for more examples?
(ernst haekel's botanic/scientific illustrations, so pretty!)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll3uxvk5dd1qc6j5yo1_500.jpg
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyff14S0Jn1qc6j5yo1_500.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ajZ8H.jpg

Xp guessing you want something less obvious/more trippy than yer average 19th C natural history illustrations but here's a link anyway:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/art-nature-imaging/collections/reeves/index.html
Also GIS audobon.

i like all kinds of botanic and natural history illustrations, i just don't know the big names
this is really neat http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/art-nature-imaging/collections/endeavour-botanical/

I don't know names either really. Meant to link to the main collections page instead of Reeves specifically!

Did you know Edward Lear drew birds? I used to have two of his macaw prints on my wall, come to think of it I wonder what happened to them?
http://www.pipress.org/2009/08/edward-lears/

Modern Haeckel-esque (not really) stuff:
http://mayhemandmuse.com/yellen-james-organic-fantasy-illustration/

lag∞n, is that a Jim Flora illustration?

idk i found it by googling jazz puzzle

upon further inspection it does seem to be signed by flora tho

yeah, it's one of his - he was an innovative dude who pretty much paved the way a lot of other similar artists. one of my favorites.

ledge i like the look of the second link just fine, but it's more art than scientific illustration. i like illustrations that are intended for taxonomic or otherwise dull scientific purposes, but look beautiful. haeckel is basically perfect. i like abstract prehistoric people too, like this

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6588560541_beec6eaf7b_z.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7dzz05xsF1rqs7fyo1_1280.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8423/7676235916_5c588059a3_c.jpg

from http://scientificillustration.tumblr.com

and some crazy bat heads from http://vintageprintable.com/wordpress/vintage-printable-animal/animal-%E2%80%93-animal-heads/

http://vintageprintable.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Animal-Animal-head-Bat-Face-9-1000x666.jpg

i already follow that tumblr! it's wonderful.

*cough*

http://scientificillustration.tumblr.com/image/28499710613

(nsfw)

i admit that was a bit of a shocker, but i have been poring over old encyclopedias enough to find some pretty choice illustrations of the inner workings of people's private parts and it's initially kinda O_O but then you remember bodies are bodies and we all have one nbd.

well yeah and i'm sure it's helpful for someone to read about! there is something highly appealing about the exemplary technique married to a purpose. went to the bp portrait awards and the level of detail was astonishing, there was a 4m square oil painting of a close-up of a face that was indistinguishable from a photo even on close inspection, the technique was absolutely unbelievable but to what end? it just seemed pointless. not with these illustrations - and of course they're beautiful too.

exactly. i like the combination of practical "this is how this thing works" or "this is what this thing you will never see looks like" illustration with artful shapes and colors and whatnot.

haeckel is basically perfect in this regard, but i was kind of just wondering if people hate him because of his bad science/he was a disgusting racist or whether people hold him in high regard for his illustrations or what. i haven't really found much about it beyond wikipedia and one blog post about darwinist dictators, so i thought i would ask here.

i mean look at this

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Haeckel_Muscinae.jpg/220px-Haeckel_Muscinae.jpg

http://0.tqn.com/d/animals/1/0/t/i/424px-Haeckel_Tubulariae.jpg
http://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads5/nature2.jpg

la lechera: wonders of the natural world, illustrated

oh yes! thank you!

no thank YOU for bumping this thread, i was looking for it last week

http://i.imgur.com/dEHLU.jpg

when i google image searched haeckel i was just O_O. Have just ordered 2012 calendar with some of his illustrations, lol. might get this too:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Forms-Nature-Prints-Haeckel/dp/3791319906/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344035830&sr=8-1

Seriously, I could look at his illustrations ALL GODDAMNED DAY, which is why I was very curious about his scientific legacy and whether or not he is a reviled character or what.

idk, maybe you should watch this to shed some light:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haeckel%27s_Tale

I already inquired about it! I'm on top of this. Maybe I'll report back when I watch it. Gotta love Clive Barker.

LL: from what I've read, Haeckel does seem to put in regular appearances in histories of science, if only for all his coinages. On the whole, I don't think he pushed evolutionary theory substantially forward, but on the other hand he did quite a bit to popularize it; his work as a naturalist was solid if not spectacular; his views on race were thoroughly awful but characteristic of many of his peers and predecessors. What he can probably be blamed most for as an individual is "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny," which I'm pretty sure I got taught without correction in high school.

Apparently he is also now a sex zombie.

hey LL i like this blog pretty well:

http://venusmilk.tumblr.com/

it has been following different tangents for a while, now, but used to near-exclusively post old botanical illustrations. if you scroll/archive all the wayyyy back to may they start appearing w/some regularity. there are some v much in the vein of the one upthread:

http://www.payer.de/amarakosa/amarak02208.jpg

& some at weird tangents in terms of interpretation:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1m4oyYZ3h1qhtuebo1_400.jpg

i have some OG botanist illustration postcards that i got from the wellcome collection, in london, too, a place that might be worth checking out.

& the pomegranate dwg above is from this specific, hypnotic site: http://www.payer.de/amarakosa/amara205c.htm

http://www.payer.de/amarakosa/amara02399.jpg

lastly kinda related but not is this nice picture i found recently. i don't love everything else the artist did but this is so pretty & seems like a kinda thoughtful modern non-retro take on the above:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0l1nlmNR71qzx0kho1_500.jpg

LL I think you will like Albertus Seba. I have a nice big Taschen book of his stuff.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2340/2188152653_f3f45dfdab.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xnK26NR3FaA/TYDdZW5TAfI/AAAAAAAAB9s/krVTnPFXbzs/Albertus+Seba.jpeg

http://www.georgeglazer.com/prints/nathist/reptiles/images/sebafrogrep2.jpg

I've been kind of into the poster art of Gunther Kieser for a while lately. I love this:

http://jazzfirstbooks.com/catalog/images/Coltrane%20Kieser%201962%20front.jpg

http://jazzfirstbooks.com/catalog/images/JATP%20Kieser%20A2%20%20Stuggart%202.jpg

His work got pretty different later. He's most famous for the Hendrix with all the wires coming out of the head. And stuff more like this:

http://recordmecca.com/rmsite/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/L1340645.jpg

I guess some of his stuff is more design than illustration. Bah, w/e

Thank you Schlump and Crabbits -- this specific, hypnotic site: http://www.payer.de/amarakosa/amara205c.htm is both v specific and hypnotic and
Seba is great!!

Love this one
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ztGeW_E7DM/SRrV8emAOeI/AAAAAAAAFV4/X6Jkjk4lrXA/s400/default_seba_exc_05_0706141541_id_45357.jpg

I like what he does with tails a lot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMeh5Ub-RvQ

embed embed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMeh5Ub-RvQ

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/199kx7isw9pbkjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/199kxk4m0m489jpg/ku-xlarge.jpg

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/199kx921tbwv1jpg/ku-xlarge.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMuDihPPyPA/S2rAbY5DyEI/AAAAAAAAMWU/aFu8lyP1mMU/s400/you-want-it-when-cartoon.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhfHXLuiTd8

i am a big fan of the cartoon modern style. some of my favorite examples of this style are in this book

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/commercial_books/2007/RAND_CB113-1.pdf

From a book of verse for children by the Inger Hagerup. Illustrations by Paul René Gauguin.
http://www.bokillustrasjon.no/illustratorer/illustratorer/prg_files/047.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2378/2126389634_a78d773e3e_z.jpg?zz=1
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2068/2126389636_ced77619ca_z.jpg?zz=1

http://www.artbaxter.com/images/blog/2008-postings/08.30-burton/little_house-endpapers.gif

ha, love the chill horse in the truck in the last panel

are those elephants crying? that is breathtaking imo

Oh yes! The poem sez all the elephants in Gothenburg wear black gloves when they're in mourning.

do you know the title of the book?

"Så Rart" ("How Curious"), "Den Sommeren" ("That Summer") and "Lille Persille" ("Little Parsley", obv there's a rhyme lost)
These days they're sold in an omnibus also called "Så rart".