Vintage Color & Design: Sci-fi Book Art

Vintage Color & Design: Sci-fi Book Art

By evad // January 15, 2009

Inspiration from classic sci-fi novels... these classic tales of alter universes and predictions of future societies were always accompanied by some really great art and color palettes. Thanks to levar for putting together this great gallery of scans from his personal collection.

anarchaos

The_Atom_Conspirarcy

Implosion

WhispersFrmTheStars

All images from lavar and shared through Creative Commons.

Written by evad

www.colourlovers.comDavid Sommers has been loving color as COLOURlovers' Blog Editor-in-Chief for the past two years. When he's not neck deep in a rainbow he's loving other things with The Post Family (http://thepostfamily.com/), a Chicago-based art blog, artist collective & gallery.

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lightningmccarl

Posted Jan 15, 2009

awesome!!!! :D

pi

Posted Jan 15, 2009

gosh, i'm obsessed by these... i have a pretty serious collection of philip k. dick inspired palettes. they are all based on his books covers.
much love for this post evad!!!

x_1013_x

Posted Jan 16, 2009

There seems to be a prevalence of orange and warm tones. Those colors do certainly grab the attention, but in these covers, they're so foreboding and hot, the colors of fire and laser beams. That Space Plague cover is fun. Great blog post!

molemouse

Posted Jan 16, 2009

fantastic post, I have always loved old SF covers, colours from other worlds.

neonrox

Posted Jan 16, 2009

:O koolz! i like them and i do agree with x_1013_x they have alot of warmish colorz... *___*

JenDragon

Posted Jan 22, 2009

I love these!

katymreid

Posted Mar 21, 2009

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