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business card, Davis Delaney Printing (ca. 1950s) pencil and tempera figures adaptedfor above card (from sketchbook)

Spot illustration, Research & Engineering, April 1956

Detail, March 1943 Columbia-Okeh Popular Recordsmonthly flyer; panel: Harry James

montage by IC using early 1950s Flora details Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Merry Saturnalia, Happy Festivus—whatever.

Detail, March 1943 Columbia-Okeh Popular Records monthly flyer panel: Okeh Country Dance, Folk Songs, and Blues

Illustration, “The Challenge of Frontier Products Development”Research and Engineering magazine, cover detail, July 1956

The long-awaited series of fine-art screen prints PRIMER FOR PROPHETS are now available on eBay. Very cool Flora illustrations of the American nuclear family (and their weird pets) during the 1950s, when people had fried-egg eyes, dog food tins were edible, and teens grew bonus legs! Subtitled “A Flora ’50s A-B-C,” the images derive from a 1954 trade-only alphabet booklet titled Primer for Prophets that Flora illustrated for CBS-TV. The booklet was not circulated to…

Compiling a resumé? Illustration, Research & Engineering, April 1956

“Industrial Research in Europe 1955” Research & Engineering magazine, cover elementOctober-November 1955

Illustration, “Human Engineering: Tailoring the Machine to the Man” Research and Engineering magazine, February 1956

Esquire magazine, September 1954

The cover of the Weekly, anyway (print edition, September 19-25 issue), in conjunction with the just-opened exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore/Gallery. The illustration is a detail from Flora’s 1954 RCA Victor LP cover Shorty Rogers Courts the Count. The Weekly’s Fall Arts section includes this nifty Flora cavalcade and a dozen interior spot placements: