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The best way to browse the designers/illustrators:Tag Cloud 

For the child who asks, "Caesarstone or stainless steel?"

Peter P. Plasencia (slideshow)

Space Alphabet illustrated by Peter P. Plasencia

Mid-Century Illustrated Originals (Pool Slideshow)

From Flickr

Mid-Century Modern Gingerbread

April Reed's Farnsworth House & More

The Modern Doll House

Paul Pincus wrote to me about these incredible doll houses and living rooms designed by the illustrator/designer Kathy Osborn. See a second slide show at wallpaper.com/interiors/dolls-house-by-kathy-osborn

Thanks Paul (or Roddy?)!

Alexander Girard Dolls

Alexander Girard’s hand-painted wooden dolls, originally made in 1963

The Mid-Century Modern Gingerbread House

courtesy of http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/11/midcentury_mode.php

and http://yumsugar.com/878110

See a Ryohei Yanagihara
slide show via Grain Edit.com

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Grain edit is focused on classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and contemporary designers that draw inspiration from that time period.Site content includes interviews, articles, designers’ libraries as well as examples of rare design annuals, type specimens, Ephemera, posters and vintage kids books from our bookshelves.
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Thanks, Dave, for posting this video tribute to Paul Rand:

Classic Illustrators by Name

Illustrators of the Mid-20th Century (thanks to Leif Peng)

Aurelius Battaglia

From Cartoon Retro --where you can see many more examples.

And here too: msn.com/inventaire/aureliusbattagliachien

Charley Harper...

a master of Mid-Century Modernism has a book coming out. Amid at Cartoon Brew says,

"...Ammo Books is getting ready to release what could become one of the must-have books of recent times: a humongous monograph on mid-century illustration legend Charley Harper. The project was initiated by fashion designer Todd Oldham who discovered Harper’s work in 2001 and has been collaborating with Harper since then to put together this book... As far as I know, Harper never worked in animation, but his work has inspired countless animation artists from 1950s-era designer Cliff Roberts to Samurai Jack background painter Scott Wills. Animator Nate Pacheco was even trying to translate Harper’s designer into Flash animation last year."