Imunna tell you about a guy named Peter Elson. He’s an illustrator and a big-brain-having imagination exploder. He’s passed on to the next world in 1998 but his works live on ever to today. You might not have ever seen a thing of his before because he worked for science fiction magazines which are really radical because they tell tales that eventually turn to reality, but they’ve got a generally underground following if you know what I mean. Let’s talk about how a person find himself drawing for such a publication.

One finds their self in whatever line of work they can find their self in. Now there’s all sorts of factors at work, the ones that work hardest at directing the person being family members, kids and elders especially. So how does Peter Elson end up working for a bunch of magazines that publish stories about science fiction? Well, I have no idea. But let’s talk about what else he might have become.

He could have worked as a conceptual artist for films, an industrial designer or a person who works WITH an industrial designer as a visionary, a comic artist, an album cover designer, a poster artist, basically any number of utterly fabulous NEW jobs that have just come into creation in the past, what, 20 years?

But I tell you what, he did science fiction illustrations, and he did them well.

Take a peek at a small sampling of his works below.

You can find more works of Peter Elson on his portfolio / gallery collected site, as run and operated by the folks who hold sway over his works. Sometimes I like these sorts of people, sometimes I hate em, but in this case, I’m pretty sure the owners are family members of Elson, so it’s positive for sure. Keeping the future alive’s what they’re doing!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies conceptual category.