11 illustrations that altered history Revolver record sleeve (for EMI Records) by Klaus Voorman, 1965 "Illustration is the people's art," says Lawrence Zeegen, dean of the London College of Communication's School of Design. It's with this in mind that he's written Fifty Years of Illustration, a book looking at the dawn of contemporary illustration and the most memorable images produced since then. Featuring over 225 artists, the tome explores just how much of an impact illustrators have had, and why their work continues to resonate. By Allyssia Alleyne, for CNN Zeegen starts his retrospective during the swinging sixties, when bold new forms of illustration were flourishing in San Francisco's Haight-Asbury community, New York and London. It was also the time when Zeegen had one of his most memorable run-ins with illustration. I grew up as a four or five-year-old with (The Beatles' Revolver) record on the turntable the whole time, and that kind of vividness of how Klaus Voormann portrayed The Beatles -- the sort of photomontage, the drawing of the hair -- is one of my earliest memories. The music made sense because of the sleeve and vice versa.