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Author Description Bob Haberfield was born in Sydney, Australia in 1938 and was most active illustrating science fiction book covers between the late 1960s to the mid-1970s.<br /><br />Haberfield became especially well-known for his distinctive, psychedelic style, and also for collaborating with the author Michael Moorcock and creating his book covers during the 1970s.<br /><br />Haberfield’s commercial art career started in the early 1960s when he became a designer and illustrator at ‘World Record Club’, a UK based record label that specialised in Jazz and Classical albums. Haberfield created a number of record sleeves for artists like Cannonball Adderley, Fats Domino, Vivaldi, and Stravinsky. <br /><br />Bob Haberfield’s early 1970s illustrations and artworks were bold, colourful, and often incorporated a psychedelic art-style. His later illustrations exhibited a more toned-down and controlled approached to his art, but during the early 1970s Haberfield had a full-on ‘wild style’ that was unlike any other Science Fiction book jackets of the time.<br /><br />One thing that has always remained consistent in Haberfield’s artwork is a propensity for Eastern religious imagery and symbolism. Many of his book covers feature an artistic style and composition that has been influenced by Japanese Wood Block printing, Eastern mysticism, and Buddhism, which Haberfield blended together to create many arresting and unique illustrations.<br /><br />Haberfield went on to create book covers for many more science fiction authors during the 1970s, but by the early 1980s he had mysteriously stopped illustrating book jackets – or maybe the commissions dried up? It is a shame either way, as Haberfield’s artwork was distinctive, fun, garish, strange, but always striking and full of colour.

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