Anyone with even a passing interest in mid-20th century design has heard of Charles and Ray Eames, but Otis and Dorothy Shepard were arguably the more influential designing couple. Until… Read the rest of the article: Otis and Dorothy Shepard: exemplars of mid-20th century design

Since 1979, World War 3 Illustrated has been a forum for those who chafed at the treacly bromides of Ronald Reagan, who heaved on the endless hypocrisy of religion, who… Read the rest of the article: World War 3 – It's the end of the world as we know it, and I don't feel fine

There's a new book out about Big O Posters, which grew out of the graphic design vision of Peter Ledeboer, the charismatic art director of the U.K. incarnation of music… Read the rest of the article: The big book of big of psychedelic fantasy posters

This past spring, the This is… series of graphic biographies about famous Western artists kicked off with a trio of handsome, modestly scaled books on Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, and… Read the rest of the article: Graphic biographies about famous Western artists

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name (through December 13, 2014, at Washington State University's Museum of Art in Pullman), Roger Shimomura: An American Knockoff offers a… Read the rest of the article: Art from a Seattle-born painter kept in a WWII internment camp

When the race that became known as Repack was first run on October 21, 1976, a half-dozen or so people, along with a dog named Junior, lined up at the… Read the rest of the article: Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking

Ben Marks explores the history of the psychedelic rock poster.

From 1903-1905, a Japanese-born, Dutch artist named Gustave Verbeek turned America's Sunday funny papers on their collective head.

Artists Tom Whalen and Kevin Tong break into the sophisticated, rapidly growing world of infographics with their exhibition, Info•Rama.

"My dad always told me not to be an artist," says Santa Cruz Skateboards artist Jimbo Phillips to Ben Marks. "He said, 'You should be a dentist and make some real money.'"

The radiant rock art illustrator exhibits his luscious silkscreen prints in a 17th-century church in the tiny coastal village of Tellaro, Italy. Ben Marks reports.

On Monday October 21, 2013, rock-poster artist Alan Forbes was standing outside a bar in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco, minding his own business, when someone coldcocked him,… Read the rest of the article: Rock poster community fights back for one of its own, San Francisco 1/3/14

As the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art prepares to shutter its South of Market location for the next three years, during which it will spend almost half a billion… Read the rest of the article: Chris Shaw re-imagines the Madonna at SFMOMA

It's rare that any of us gets to start at the top: Brandon Crawford's first hit for the San Francisco Giants was a grand slam, Tatum O'Neal's first movie, Paper… Read the rest of the article: Bill Gold, the master of the movie poster

For a little over a year now, Tom Whalen has been Mondo's go-to artist for contemporary movie posters of classic cartoons. Mondo, of course, is the Austin-based gig-style movie-poster publisher… Read the rest of the article: Tom Whalen Goes Daffy for Mondo