Selected Bibliography

“Duration Apartment.” Arts and Architecture, vol. 60, December 1943.

“Designed for Work and Display: Look Magazine Visual Research Offices.” Interiors, June 1945.

“Experimental Office for a General Publication.” Architectural Forum, vol. 82, January 1945.

“Alvin Lustig: About the Career of a Young Man with an Inquiring Mind.” Interiors, September 1946.

“Alvin Lustig Design Offices for Reporter Publications.” Architectural Forum, May 1946.

“By Unorthodox Design: Headquarters for a Publishing Firm.” Interiors, June 1946.

“Remodeled Shop.” Interiors, December 1947.

“Store for Men.” Arts and Architecture, vol. 65, April 1948.

“Interior: Study and Small Bar.” Arts and Architecture, vol. 65, June 1948.

“An Educational Institute for a Community Group – Alvin Lustig Designer.” Arts and Architecture, vol. 65, November 1948.

“Alvin Lustig Cover Designs.” Graphis, vol. 4, no. 23, 1948.

“Apartment Hotel – Beverly Carlton Hotel, Los Angeles.” Architectural Forum, February 1949.

“Variable: To Suit the Specific Requirement – Constant: In Functional Application.” American Fabrics, no. 12, 1949.

“Alvin Lustig.” Columbus Citizen, April 3, 1949.

“Alvin Lustig.” Daily News of Los Angeles, October 29, 1949.

​​“A-D Gallery Exhibit.” Interiors, December 1949.

Laughlin, James. “Designs of Alvin Lustig.” Publishers Weekly, November 5, 1949.

“Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Exposition Alvin Lustig.” Art D’Aujourd’Hui, series 2, no. 1, October 1950.

“Alvin Lustig Walker Art Center.” Minneapolis Star, February 6, 1950.

Steinweiss, Alex. “Alvin Lustig Designer.” Art Director and Studio News, January 1950.

“Alvin Lustig Designer.” Extra, June 1950.

“Alvin Lustig Draws Thin Steel with an Accurate Pencil.” Interiors, December 1950.

Gerth, Ruth. “Their First Exhibition.” Western Advertising, December 1950.

Lee, Marshall. Books for Our Time. Oxford University Press, 1951.

Fenton, Edward. “Some Notes on the History of the Bookjacket.” Publisher’s Weekly, February 10, 1951.

“Accessory Shop.” Arts and Architecture, vol. 86, September, 1951.

“Bookjackets.” Graphis, vol. 7, no. 38, 1951.

Imre, Claire. “Alvin Lustig: A Versatile Designer.” American Artist, November 1952.

Hatje, Gerd. New Furniture/Neue Mobel/Neubles Nouveaux. Wittenborn & Schultz, 1952.

“Alvin Lustig.” Domus, November 1952.

Hunter, Sam. “Alvin Lustig.” Art Digest, vol. 27, December 1952.

Mitarachi, Jane Fiske. “The Lustig Portfolio.” Interiors, June 1953.

“Traveling Exhibit.” Display – Interiors Library, Whitney Publications, 1953.

Nesbitt, Alexander. “Design for Paperbounds.” Design Quarterly, no. 31, 1954

“Northland Shopping Center.” Architectural Forum, June 1954.

Rosner, Charles. The Growth of the Bookjacket. Harvard University Press, 1954

“Lightolier’s Pragmatic Dramatics, Redesigned Headquarters.” Interiors, September 1954.

Huxtable, Ada Louise. “Signs of the Times.” Art Digest, vol. 28, no. 13, April 1 1954.

“Alvin Lustig.” Advertising Review, England, vol. 1, no. 2, 1954.

“Alvin Lustig.” Linea Graphica, vol. 11/12, November 1954.

“Showroom for Lightolier Inc.” Progressive Architecture, vol. 35, November 1954.

“Elegance in a Town Apartment.” Gentry, 1955.

“Hudson’s Northland: A New Concept of Art Direction.” Art Director and Studio News, July 1955.

“Two Designers are Starred at the Museum of Modern Art.” Industrial Design, December 1955.

“Landscape of Lettering.” Architectural Forum, vol. 102, January 1955.

“Design and Printing for Commerce.” Print, vol. 9, March 1955.

Saarinen, Aline. “The Role of the Graphic Designer: Museum of Modern Art Shows Diverse Work By Two Moderns.” The New York Times, October 23, 1955.

Oeri, Georgine. “Alvin Lustig.” Graphis, vol. 2, no. 60, 1955.

“Crystallization of Lustig’s Style, An Apartment by Alvin Lustig.” Interiors, July 1955.

“Review of International Design Annual.” Progressive Architecture, vol. 36, March 1955.

Pepis, Betty. “Linear Modern.” The New York Times Magazine, October 2, 1955.

“Wilheim Apartment.” Vogue, October 15, 1955.

“Exhibition at Museum of Modern Art.” Art News, vol. 54, November 1955.

Laughlin, James. “The Bookjackets of Alvin Lustig.” Print, vol. 10, no. 5, October 1956.

Ohchi, Huoshi. “Alvin Lustig 1915-1955.” Idea International Advertising Art, no. 17, 1956.

“Two Artful Interiors.” Architectural Forum, vol. 106, no. 5, May 1957.

“Two Adjacent Rooms by Alvin Lustig.” Interiors, no. 6, January 1957.

“Alvin Lustig.” Graphic Design, no. 1, 1959.

Constantine, Mildred and Egbert Jacobson. Sign Language. Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1961.

Melson, Bob. “Alvin Lustig: The Designer as Teacher.” Print, vol. XXIII, January/February 1969.

Wild, Lorraine. “Modern American Graphics II: The Birth of a Profession.” Industrial Design, vol. 30, no. 4, July/August 1983.

Butler, Frances. “The Covers of Arts and Architecture.” Arts and Architecture, vol. 2, no. 2, 1983.

Remington, Roger and Barbara J. Hodik. “Alvin Lustig Remembered.” Communication Arts, vol. 25, no. 2, May/June 1983.

Ritchie, Ward. “A Tale of Two Books.” The Book Collectors, Los Angeles, September 2, 1985.

Ritchie, Ward. “Fine Printing, The Los Angeles Tradition.” Library of Congress, Washington, 1987.

Usher, Frederick A. “A Tribute to Alvin Lustig.” AIGA, Los Angeles, Summer 3, 1987.

Smith, Elizabeth A. T. Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1989.

Remington, Roger and Barbara J. Hodik. Nine Pioneers in American Graphic Design. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1989.

Heller, Steven. “Born Modern.” Eye International Review of Graphic Design, vol. 3, no. 10, 1993

Heller, Steven. “1993 Lifetime Achievement Award: Alvin Lustig Born Modern.” AIGA Annual, Watson Guptill, 1994.

Heller, Steven. “Lustig’s Legacy.” I.D. The International Design Magazine, November 1994.

Heller, Steven and Seymour Chwast. Jackets Required. Chronicle Books, 1995.

Cohen, Lustig Elaine and Lupton, Ellen. Letters from the Avant-Garde: Modern Graphic Design. Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.

Mukai, Shutaro and Tanaka, Ikko. Transition of Modern Typography: Europe & America, 1950’s-60’s. Ginza Graphic Gallery, 1996.

Friedl, Friedrich, Nicolas Ott, Bernard Stein, Koneman Koln. Typography/Typographie/Typographie: Wann Wer Wie/Quand Qui Comment/When Who How, 1998.

Linz, Francisco-Carolinum. “Work & Culture Exhibition.” Landes Galerie Am Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseum, June 19 – October 4, 1998.

Heller, Steven. “Historical Critique: Positive Space.” Critique, no. 16, Summer 2000.

Tupitsyn, Margarita. Bauhaus: Dessau – Chicago – New York. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. August 12 – November 12, 2000.

Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960. Brooklyn Museum of Art in Association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001.

Heller, Steven and Georgette Balance. Graphic Design History. Allworth Press, 2001.

Heller, Steven. “Alvin Lustig: Born Modern”. Allworth Press, 2001.

Kelly, Rob Roy. “The Early Years of Graphic Design at Yale University.” Design Issues, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer 2001.

Remington, Roger. American Modernism: Graphic Design 1920 to 1960. Laurence King Publishing, London, 2003

Heller, Steven. “When Paperbacks Went Highbrow: Modern Cover Design in the 50s & 60s”. Baseline International Typographics Magazine, United Kingdom, no. 43, 2003

Cohen, Elaine Lustig. “Alvin Lustig’s Top Ten Designs.” Voice: AIGA Journal of Design, June 3, 2004.

Heller, Steven. “Down the Pigeonhole.” Print, January/February 2004.

Heller, Steven. “The Lost Adman and His Forgotten Ads.” Baseline International Typographics Magazine, United Kingdom, no. 44, 2004.

Heller, Steven and Karen Pomeroy. “Industrial Design.” Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design. Allworth Press, 2004.

Drew, Ned and Paul Sternberger. By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design. Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.

Drew, Ned and Paul Sternberger. Purity of Aim: The Book Jackets of Alvin Lustig. RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2010.

Heller, Steven and Elaine Lustig Cohen. Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig. Chronicle Books, 2010.

Kaplan, Wendy. California Design, 1930-1965 Living In a Modern Way. MIT Press, 2011.

Thomson, Julie J. “The Art of Graphic Design: Lustig, Albers, Johnson, and the 1945 Summer Session.” Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, vol. 6, June 2014.

Heller, Steven and Greg D’Onofrio. The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design. Abrams Books, 2017.

Miller, Meg. “On Seeing and Being Seen.” Eye on Design magazine, Issue 1, 2018.

Inglis, Theo. Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design. Rizzoli, 2019.