Ralph McQuarrie

Ralph Angus McQuarrie məˈkwɒriː June 13 1929 March 3 2012 was a conceptual designer and futurist responsible for many of the designs and aesthetics featured in the original trilogy He also provided concept illustrations fort he original Battlestar Galactica and the illustration of the Ark of the Covenant seen in a Bible near the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark He often went by the initials RMQ which he used as his signature McQuarrie was tuckerized via a cameo in The Empire Strikes Back as General Pharl McQuarrie