Shusei Nagaoka (長岡秀星, Nagaoka Shusei?, born November 26, 1936) is a Japanese illustrator. He is best known for his music album cover art in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the artists he did covers for include, ELO, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Caldera, and Pure Prairie League.

... 70s and 80s. Born in 1936 in a mountain village in the vicinity of Nagasaki, SHUSEI NAGAOKA's family had to evacuate their home when the atomic bomb hit the city in 1945. He entered ... age of 19, but decided to quit three years later, as he was already operating a successful business as an illustrator. Nagaoka illustrated several iconic record covers ranging from Earth Wind & Fire to Deep ...

... , like Earth Wind and Fire, Deep Purple, The Sylvers and ELO all bought heavily into this look and feel. And one of the chief arbiters of the look was Japanese artist Shusei Nagaoka. It comes as no surprise then, that the great man's delectably colourful airbrush work was utilised by the Japanese car industry. I stumbled upon these ads for the Mitsubishi penned by Nagaoki: they formed part ...

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... on the more experienced Satoshi Nishino, and the Pancrase veteran Hiroki "AB" Aoki took on Hiroki Nagaoka. Main event: Feather: Katsuya Toida Def. Wataru Takahashi by Rear-naked choke Round 2 0:28 ... Def Ikkei Nagamura by TKO Round 3 1:10 Light: Hiroki "AB" Aoki Def. Hiroki Nagaoka by triangle armbar Round 1 3:46 Welter: Keitaro Maeda Def. Tetsuya Yoshioka by armbar Round 3 ...

While it may be overly knowing in its execution, it’s clearly a labour of love on the part of Yasuchika Nagaoka and crew, and that shows through. And what it loves is giant robots and busty women. And busty giant robots. It has its tongue in its cheek, most obviously in the taking the obvious sexual metaphor of combining robots and hitting you over the head with it, but at the same time it ...

... new ideas. Featured designers include: Keiji Ashizawa, Inoda + Sveje, IN Design, Gaku Otomo, Izumi Okayasu, Mikiya Kobayashi, Hironao Tsuboi, Naoki Terada, TRAF, Drill Design, Point / Ben Nagaoka, Ryuji Nakamura, Hajime Narukawa, NOSIGNER, Jun Hashimoto, Taiji Fujimori, MILE, Leif. design park, Teruhiro Yanagihara. Prototype 03, November 13th to 24th 2009 at Tokyo Midtown Design Hub, 9-7-1 ...

We know what you’re craving: more Mitsubishi ad campaigns from 1984! Stunned by our mind-reading abilities, aren’t you? Far from an Orwellian nightmare world, that year turned out to be a resounding success for the triple diamond mafia’s marketing department. You might think that getting album cover artist Shusei Nagaoka to draw mind-blowing posters for the

... the genius at work. Here’s an AP article, via The American Blues Blog, that provides information about the birthplace of Robert Johnson. Last week io9.com put up a bunch of artwork by Shusei Nagaoka, who created artwork in the 70’s for Deep Purple, ELO and Star Trek. Finally, there’s a whole mess of great music available for immediate download over at ParisDJs.  What are you ...

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... " Photograph Collection is a compilation of images considered for, or published in, the Official Manual of the State of Missouri' / Pink Tentacle publishes illustrations by Shusei Nagaoka / OK Go's rather excellent video for WTF? / for this weekend only, The Apartment Project, in Broadway Market, London. Before and After, the legacy of fast urbanisation at Oobject (via kottke) / ...