Background
Bob Peak was born in Denver, Colorado and grew up in Wichita, Kansas.
Bob Peak was born in Denver, Colorado and grew up in Wichita, Kansas.
Wichita State University.
His artwork has been on the cover of Time magazine, television Guide, and Sports Illustrated. He also illustrated advertisements and United States. postage stamps. Early life and career
He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a commercial illustrator.
He majored in geology at the University of Wichita (nka Wichita State University) and got a part-time job in the art department of McCormick-Armstrong.
After serving the military during the Korean War, Peak transferred to the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California, graduating in 1951. In 1953, Peak moved to New York City, landed an Old Hickory Whiskey advertising campaign.
His work went on to appear in major advertising and national magazines. Later career
United Artists studio hired Peak in 1961 to design the poster images for the film West Side Story.
The success of Peak"s work on that film led to work on posters for designer Bill Gold, including the big-budget musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot.
In the mid-1970s Peak"s style would become familiar to fans of science fiction films when he created the poster art for the futuristic film Rollerball (1975), which was followed by the first five Star Trek films, Superman (1978), Excalibur (1981), both Derek Flint films, Apocalypse Now (1979), The Spy Who Loved Maine and other James Bond concepts. By the 1980s only the movie poster artist Drew Struzan was in as much demand by film directors. Peak received a commission from the United States. Postal Service to design 30 stamps for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
Peak also taught in his own college and later at Art Students League of New York, Pratt Institute and Famous Artists School.
Richard Amsel
Saul Bass
Jack Davis
Frank Frazetta
The Brothers Hildebrandt
Mitchell Hooks
Tom Jung
Sanford Kossin
Frank McCarthy
Robert McGinnis
Drew Struzan
Howard Terpning.