- Names
- 長岡秀星
- NAGAOKA Shūsei (index name)
- Nagaoka Shūsei (display name)
- 長岡秀星 (Japanese display name)
- ながおか しゅうせい (transliterated hiragana)
- 長岡秀三 (real name)
- Date of birth
- 1936-11-26
- Birth place
- Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
- Date of death
- 2015-06-23
- Death place
- Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture
- Gender
- Male
- Fields of activity
- Illustration
- Painting
日本美術年鑑 / Year Book of Japanese Art
「長岡秀星」『日本美術年鑑』平成28年版(543頁)宇宙やSFをイメージした作品で国際的に活躍したイラストレーターの長岡秀星は6月23日午前1時59分、心筋梗塞のため神奈川県小田原市の病院で死去した。享年78。 1936(昭和11)年11月26日、長崎県長崎市に生まれる。本名秀三。45年に父の出身地である長崎県壱岐へ疎開し、以後高校卒業まで同地で過ごす。高校3年の時に原子力飛行機の分解図を描いて小学館発行『中学生の友』の口絵に投稿、採用される。5...
Wikipedia
Shusei Nagaoka (長岡秀星, Nagaoka Shūsei, November 26, 1936 – June 23, 2015) was a Japanese illustrator. He is best known for his music album cover art in the 1970s and 1980s. Artists for whom he illustrated covers include Electric Light Orchestra, Earth, Wind & Fire, Deep Purple, Space, Maze, George Clinton, Kitaro, Rose Royce, Caldera, and Pure Prairie League. He assisted in the designing of the 1970 Osaka Expo, and was selected as one of the most significant artists in 200 years of American Illustration. He received several awards, along with platinum and gold albums, in recognition of his work. Several books of his artwork have been published, and in 1981 examples of his work were launched into outer space and orbited via the Russian Mir space station. Other companies and organizations where his work was featured included: NHK Television, TBS Japan, & National Geographic.
- VIAF ID
- 111496389
- AOW ID
- _3c5a7f9a-b469-4f74-8bdb-66d301bce870
- NDL ID
- 00122205
- Wikidata ID
- Q11652137
- 2024-12-10