TV CommercialsApril 20, 2006 2:28 am
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.
How’d they get such nice texture on the backgrounds?
Comment by doug holverson — April 24, 2006 @ 8:20 am
It is really great to see some of my Uncle Paul’s work. During the 50’s my mother told me that he was doing really well in advertising back in New York.
Comment by Fredric Yim — August 6, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
i am lewis gifford’s grandson and lewis gifford and paul kim are both still alive and doing well
Comment by schuyler ward — May 31, 2009 @ 7:25 pm