David Willardson is an American artist. He attended the

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. He has worked on

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characters, designing a "new look" for many of Disney's movie posters, and worked on Disney movie campaigns for 17 years. As an award-winning illustrator in the 1970s, Willardson was instrumental in the rise of

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art in pop culture, leading to a prolific career in illustration and design. His work includes the covers of ''

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(1975),''

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' '' There Must Be More to Love Than This'' (1970), the

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for ''

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'' (1973), Little Richard's '' The Second Coming'' (1972) and the Refreshments' ''

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'' (1996), as well as ''

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'' magazine cover art and the Fender guitar poster series. In 2007

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reported that she was in a relationship with Willardson, with whom she had first worked in 2001 when he designed the branding for her record label Mighty Sound. Willardson has since designed album covers for ''Deep Natural'' and for Shocked's album reissues. Willardson and Shocked share an artist's studio in the Biscuit Company Lofts.

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Living people Film poster artists Year of birth missing (living people) American album-cover and concert-poster artists ArtCenter College of Design alumni {{US-artist-stub