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Products of the orbiting imagination of Cover Artist Boris Artzybasheff, the drawings were spotted by the people arranging the 1960 Western Electronic Show and Convention, right at the time they were looking for a theme for the annual meeting. Donald C. Duncan, president of Duncan Electronics, Inc. of Santa Ana, Calif, and director of the 1960 Wescon, borrowed Artzybasheff's original painting from TIME, commissioned Design Masters, a display-making firm in nearby San Gabriel, to see what they could...
They did just fine. A staff of six devoted a full two months to the project, consulted occasionally with Artist Artzybasheff, and produced seven lively models-made of Styrofoam with a papier-maché; and plastic covering. The wide-eyed, camera-wielding Tiros caricature became a wonderfully evocative, 8-ft.-wide monster; and the nose on the 8-ft.-long Vanguard III would arouse the envy of even Los Angeles Neighbor Jimmy Durante...
Having carried out his father's first instruction, Boris transliterated the family name, set out to make a reputation for himself in America as Boris Artzybasheff. At 61, he has made a reputation around the world as an artist who stands alone in the field of humanizing machines and mechanizing humans. He has created everything from book jackets and women's clothing to a nightclub and stage sets, designed more than 50 books, had four one-man exhibits in Paris, published a collection of his own drawings and paintings (As I See) and several children's books...
Both delighted and impressed by the insight apparent in Artist Artzybasheff's portrayal of Lyndon Baines Johnson on April 25 cover. Or am I presuming too much by my interpretation of the prominence of a certain portion of the donkey's anatomy? MARION T. MOSES
Your excellent article on tobacco stated that 36% of all women over 15 smoke. But apparently Cover Artist Artzybasheff was unaware of this, because not one of the burning cigarettes he drew had even the slightest trace of lipstick...