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Alvin Lustig, Designer


PK at Bibliodyssey has reproduced a gallery of fantastic book cover designs by Alvin Lustig (1915-1955), and points to the Lustig website, a thing of sheer beauty. More Lustig book designs are here; I'm particularly fond of his design for Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil (Knopf page, middle row, second from right).

April 17, 2006 in Books | Permalink

Comments

Thanks P. I saw a Lustig exhibit in Prague shortly after the Silent Revolution. It was the perfect complement to those heady, magic days after the fall of Soviet hegemony and the beginning of the Balkan wars. I always thought it appropriate that his last name translates as "laughter."

Cheers,

BT

Posted by: B. Trout at Apr 19, 2006 12:53:41 PM