Alvin Lustig's Early Books05.20.08
Airform Archives has posted an excellent article about Alvin Lustig's early book design. His work from the 1930's and 1940's is more complex than his later more well known designs, and seemingly takes influence from Prairie School architectural details while building constructions of pre-existing type ornaments and elements. Beautiful, extremely well thought out and produced, and exceedingly covetable!
sroden said: thanks for the link and the kind words. nice stuff you got going on here as well! steve 5.31.08WEBSITE
Ars Longa is a journal of fine arts, modernist design, and thrift shop archaeology. Nicely designed objects and beautiful artworks can be affordably attained by everyone, you just have to know where to look ... read more >
