Bob Peak (1927-92) was an extraordinarily gifted commercial illustrator who started out working on ad agency accounts before gaining fame for his more than 130 movie posters and innumerable magazine covers.

A natural draftsman, Peak’s style consists of dynamic figure drawing, striking portraiture work, innovative compositions and eye-popping color design. Take one look at Bob Peak’s work you’ll see why he’s regarded as one the most diostinctive artists the field of commercial art ever produced.

Here’s a sampling of the art of Bob Peak, starting with a piece of advertising art, circa 1964

An early Peak movie poster for Camelot (1967)

One of Peak’s many Time magazine covers (1972)

TV Guide cover art for the NBC series Search (1972)

Peak’s iconic poster for Enter the Dragon (1973)

TV Guide cover for ABC’s The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)

An early version of The Yakuza one-sheet poster (1974)

ABC’s Baretta gets the Bob Peak treatment (1977)

Poster for the James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Peak’s poster for Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn (1982)

Number three in a series of six Bob Peak Star Trek posters (1984)

There’s plenty more of Bob Peak’s artistry out there on the Internet to be enjoyed and studied. A good place to start would be here.