Bob Staake's New Yorker Covers

News Update. Time magazine has just selected this cover by Bob Staake as the Number One magazine cover of 2008. Didn't I just got through telling you how great it is?

Here's the link.

It's time to include contemporary talent when it's too outstanding to be ignored. That's how I feel about Bob Staake's recent work for The New Yorker magazine.

This is the most recent issue which took its sweet time to arrive in our mailbox, which is why I'm a few days late with it.

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This work entitled Reflections is sublime. I ran some work in the blog by Jules Guerin, an old-time architectural illustrator and while he was excellent for his time, this Lincoln Memorial of Bob's shows just how far illustration and design has come -- with rare exceptions -- in the 100 years since. 

I don't think magazine cover illustration can get any better than this for a whole lot of reasons which would probably sound pompous to you. Suffice it to say that I feel strongly that this is every bit as good as the best Swiss posters of the last century. Highlighting the O in the title is in itself a stroke of genius.

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Another one of Bob's covers. This was for the Independence Day issue of 2 July 2007. That's an energy-saving bulb in Liberty's lantern.

The cover of Orb of Chatham, Bob's book about a mysterious orb making its way through Chatham on Cape Cod.

Chatham lighthouse.

A spread from the book. 

The New York Central Passes Through A Living Room in Connecticut (detail from a book-in-progress  'Mysteryopolis' by Bob Staake)

Bob is the author and illustrators of scores of childrens books as well.

One of Bob's New Yorker covers published during a past baseball World Series.

For a comprehensive view of Bob Staake's work, environment and collection of examples from the golden age of poster art click on this link.

Comments

[Neal McCullough]

Staake's work is always a pleasure to see

[Daniel Ted]

Bob Staake is the man. Seriously.

[Julián Abreu]

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!