Illustrator Leif Peng comes through again, this time with a 1959 SATURDAY EVENING POST magazine ad for Timken roller bearings. The ad uses images from a mid-1950s television commercial designed by Paul Kim at the NY commercial studio Academy Pictures. In the late-1950s, Kim teamed up with designer Lew Gifford, and they started Gifford-Kim Animation, which existed well into the 1970s and maybe even the ’80s. As far as I know, Kim is still alive, though I tried hard to track him down for the book and was never able to find him.
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How’d they get such nice texture on the backgrounds?
Comment by doug holverson — April 24, 2006 @ 8:20 am
This blog is such a goldmine!!!!
Thanks to you!
Comment by fourmi — April 24, 2006 @ 12:41 pm