poster in “Great Ideas of Western Man” series

Alvin Lustig designed this ad for the Container Corporation of America. The quote is from John Ruskin “On the Benefits of Education.”

(via designopolis on etsy)

a sneak peak of the MoMA’s Alvin Lustig holdings

Elaine Lustig Cohen meets with the MoMA to discuss a massive collection of Alvin Lustig designed materials in the MoMA’s Library and Museum Archives!

(via The Daily Heller)

rejected Graphis magazine covers,
the cover on the top left was designed by Alvin Lustig

(first discovered via BustBright)

Alvin Lustig’s apartment c. 1953
(first discovered via @sandiv via MONDOBLOGO)

redesignrelated:

The new Google Images search redesign eliminates caption texts to provide only visual eye-candy at first glance. This is the first major revamp of Google Images since the tool first launched back in 2001. Included in the redesign is the ability to view up to 1,000 images on on scrolling page.

(click for larger screenshots for before and after)

The ASB vintage Cover Archive

Can’t believe I’m only now discovering this great resource: Alvin Lustig, George Salter, Paul Rand, Roy Kuhlman, George Giusti, Leo Lionni…

There are also pages for modern day book cover designers such as John Gall, Carol Divine Carson, Paul Sahre…

discovered that today is the 332nd anniversary of Antonio Vivaldi’s birthday after pondering why the Google logo was updated with what I thought were broken violins…

(spotted above record for sale on eBay for a high price tag, also see Alvin Lustig “LP cover design, fresh from 1954” via Elina Minn, & looks like Javier García got lucky)

J. S. Bach & Vivaldi record album cover by Alvin Lustig, c. 1953
(discovered via flickr pool via Javier Garcia)

Barton’s Bonbonniere found in Architectural Forum c. 1952,
architect Victor Gruen, with Alvin Lustig as the graphics consultant
(a very happy discovery via sandiv999)

FaceOut Books collects Alvin Lustig jacket designs too.
I’m jealous of their incredible collection.

dust jacket design by Alvin Lustig, c. 1943 (more via Scott Lindberg—
I’m jealous of this collection, mine is much smaller)

my favorite Alvin Lustig cover in my collection since it was the only one given as a special gift. a sweet attempt at making me feel better about the long story surrounding how we lost my treasured copy of The Wanderer, with a dust jacket in Very Fine condition…
(via my flickr)

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse,
dust jacket design by Alvin Lustig
first American edition c. 1951 (via abebooks)

Would love to have this in my collection (and the rest of the New Directions: New Classics) if I had the money.