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ALVIN LUSTIG

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Brochures & Catalogs

Canon Electric Co., 1942
Alta Ski Lodge, 1942
Cities are for People, Mel Scott, Pacific Southwest Academy, 1942
Kittell Silencers, 1943
Kittell Muffler & Manufacturing Co., 1943 (interior)
City of Los Angeles Housing Authority Annual Report, 1943
Sheet Music for Mark Warnow, 1945
World Inventors Exposition, 1947
A-D Gallery, The Composing Room, 1948
Lansing Sound, 1949
Lansing Sound, 1949
Lansing Sound, 1949
Lightolier, 1952
Lightolier, 1952 (interior)
Lightolier, 1952
Lightolier, 1952 (interior)
Lightolier, 1952
Lightolier, 1952
Announcement, Teaching Fellowship in Graphic Design at Yale University, 1952
Ciba Pharmaceutical, 1953
Ciba Pharmaceutical, 1953
Ciba Pharmaceutical, 1953
American Crayon, 1953
Girl Scouts of America, 1953–55
Girl Scouts of America, 1953–55
Girl Scouts of America, 1953–55
Girl Scouts of America, 1953–55 (interior)
Girl Scouts of America, 1953–55
Globe Collapsible Corp., 1953
Francis de N. Schroeder: A Selection of Thirty of His Editorials for Interiors, Whitney Publications, 1953
XXVII Venezia Biennale, MoMA, 1954
Consolidated Vacuum Cororation, 1954
Lightolier, 1955 (with Elaine Lustig Cohen)

Magazines & Journals

Touring Topics, 1933
California Arts & Architecture, 1942
Screen Actor, 1942
Screen Actor, November 1942
Screen Actor, December 1942
Staff, 1944–45
Staff, March 1944
Staff, 1944–45
Staff, 1944–45
Staff, 1944–45
Staff, July 1944
Staff, 1944–45
Black Mountain College, 1946
Fortune, December 1946
Interiors, July 1946
Neurotica, Issue 1, 1947
Gentry, Brooks Adams, Winter 1951
American Fabrics, 1951
AIGA Journal, 1952
Fortune, September 1952
Perspectives, No. 1, 1952
Art Digest, January 1953
Diogenes, Issue 2, The Ford Foundation, 1953 (image courtesy of Doug Clouse)
Industrial Design, February 1954
Industrial Design, April 1954
Industrial Design, June 1954

Advertisements

Power in Motion, Menasco Manufacturing Company, 1942
Screen Actor Magazine, 1942
Wilshire Ebell Theatre, 1943
H.G. Knoll, Arts & Architecture, 1944
H.G. Knoll, Arts & Architecture, 1945
H.G. Knoll, Arts & Architecture, 1945
H.G. Knoll, Arts & Architecture, 1945
H.G. Knoll, Arts & Architecture, 1945
H.G. Knoll, Arts & Architecture, 1945
New Directions, View, 1945
Incantation fabric (designed by Lustig), 1947
Lustig Chair, Paramount Furniture, 1949
Composing Room, 1949
New Directions Books poster design, c. 1949
The New Classics poster design, New Directions, c. 1949
The Makers of Modern Literature poster design, New Directions, c. 1949
Ninth Graphic Arts Production Yearbook, 1950
Great Ideas of Western Man, Container Corporation of America, 1951
Miller Lighting Company, 1951
Gotham Carpet Company, 1952

Ephemera

Jake Zeitlin, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1937
Calder Exhibition at Project, Los Angeles, c. 1937–41
Best wishes to Father and His R.R. Xmas, 1938
Scrapbook of Art by Herman J. Cherry, c.1938
Holiday Card for Mr. & Mrs. Richard Torndike, 1938
Holiday Card for Sara Belle Lustig, 1938
Euclid, A New Type, 1939
Typographic Shapes, 1939
Greeting Card, Alfred Stendahl, 1939
Germany France Finland Stamps, F.G. Ruziecki, 1939
Philately in Europe, 1939
Philately in Europe, 1939
Twenty–Second Commencement, Beverly Hills High School, 1939
Dances Old and New, Art Teachers’ Association, Beverly Hills High School, 1939
Dances Old and New, Art Teachers’ Association, Beverly Hills High School, 1939
A Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year from Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Good, 1939
Media: A Design and Production Center, Alvin Lustig & Allison McNay, West Los Angeles, 1940
New Orleans Group, Stendahl Galleries, 1940
Twenty–Third Commencement, Beverly Hills High School, 1940
Bohemian Life, Newsletter of Gastronomic and Bibulatory Lore, 1940
Alvin Lustig Brentwood Studio, 1940
Christmas Card Design, 1940
Rounce and Coffin Club Meeting Announcement, 1940
Elements of Typography, Art Teachers’ Association of L.A., 1941
Elements of Typography, Art Teachers’ Association of L.A., 1941
Alvin George Lustig Design Studio, Beverly Hills, 1941
American Primitive: Meyer Hiler, Raymond & Raymond, Hollywood, 1941
Tom E. Lewis, Stendahl Galleries, 1940
Opening of the Lucia Cody Van Buskirk Studio of Interior Decoration, 1941
Robinson’s Department Store, 1942
Herzog Lumber & Dorr Co., 1942
Jackie Blum, Peggy Kempton, and Evelyn Silva, American Contemporary Gallery, 1943
Andrew Good, c. 1940’s
From the Books of John Hubley, c. 1940’s
Photographs by Alexander Hackenschmied, American Contemporary Gallery, c. 1940’s
Alvin Lustig: An exhibition of his work, Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, 1949
Lightolier, 1955
Lightolier, 1956 (with Elaine Lustig Cohen)

Logos & Stationery

Abbey Bookbinders, c. 1940–43
Alyn Whalen, c. 1940–43
Interstate Management Corporation, c. 1940–43
Lyold Wright, c. 1940–43
Stanley P. Murphy Company, c. 1940–43
The Book Stall, c. 1940–43
Vivian Law, c. 1940–43
The Conference Press, c. 1940–43
ph 6282 Vine Way Hollywood, c. 1940–43
Stan Spohn of Los Angeles California, c. 1940–43
UPA (United Productions of America), Burbank, CA, 1946
Alvin Lustig Design, 1947
Monte Factor, 1947
Sheela’s, 1947
Neurotica Magazine, 1947
Structon Complete Building Services, 1947
Comb & Shears, 1949
Paramount Furniture, 1949
UPA (United Productions of America), Burbank, CA, 1950
Alvin Lustig Design, 1950
The Leads, Inc., 1950
Victor Gruen, 1950
Ralph Samuels, Photography, Los Angeles, 1955

Album Covers

Sound Off by Mark Warnow's, c. 1940’s
Boismortier, Naqudot, and Leclair, c. 1940’s
Mozart: Piano concerto in C Major, c. 1940’s
Vivaldi, Hadyn Society, 1952
J.S. Bach, The Suites for Orchestra, Hadyn Society, 1952

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