Illustrated Sports.

While perusing the Sports Illustrated site I stumbled on their archive of previous SI Covers over the last 50 years. It’s interesting to see the progression from the classy straight forward shots of the 50’s, the semi-psycedellic styles of the 60’s and 70’s and the eventual more framed action shots of todays covers. I was mostly interested in the highly styled illustration work during the 1960-70 run of covers. Today, creative graphic work in sports reporting has been replaced by the FOX Network’s dancing robot fighting the Galloping Gobbler on Thanksgiving, so it’s great see high concept illustration and design created for sports coverage.

Check out the 1960’s cover section of their site here.