In my spare time I enjoy watching old movies, looking through vintage yearbooks and magazines all to catch a glimpse of classic style in action. While these sources often contain wonderful examples of classic style there are other types of images that I enjoy equally if not more than film and photographs and those are illustrations, drawings, and paintings. Whether it is an old Norma Hilton ad, artwork from the Saturday Evening Post or the work of a contemporary Japan graphic illustrator there is just something about them, and that something is their ability to capture time, emotion, style and to communicate all that in a way that borders on the fantastic. I have included a handful of images below. I hope that you enjoy them.
Illustration by Hiroshi Watatani (more illustrations and info here ). Also, I aspire to look like this.
Date With The Television by John Phillip Falter from the Saturday Evening Post
Vintage Norman Hilton Ad
The Yuppie Handbook: The State-of-the Art Manual for Young Urban Professionals
Prize Pupil — unsigned paperback cover art, 1966
Sears Roebuck and Co. Catalog
Alfred James Munnings Portrait (Story here)
Jack Vettriano Jive (Study)