Alvin Lustig miscellany

Beverly Hills High School Commencement, 1942


Philately in Europe brochure, 1939


Incantation, Textile Design, 1947 [via] (see it in fabric form at Alki1's flickr ---> [link])


Christmas card, 1940


Typography Manual, Art Teacher's Association of LA, 1941 [via]


Self-Promotion broadside, 1941


Twenty-Third Commencement - Beverly Hills High School, 1940


Twenty-Fifth Commencement - Beverly Hills High School, 1942


Sheet with typographic shapes, 1939


Ninth Graphic Arts Production Yearbook, 1950


Joints for special install, at the Alvin Lustig exhibition at the A-D Gallery, 1949


Alvin Lustig's Office(?), 1951


Alvin Lustig, 1945
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The fantastic Alvin Lustig website [link]
The Alvin & Elaine Lustig Design flickr pool [link]
Articles & Texticles has a great entry on Mr. Lustig, from which several of the above images are from [link]
More of Lustig's works at the Smithsonian's collection [link]
Great bio and more works at AIGA [link]
More works at Dr. Leslie's project [link]
Books on/of Alvin Lustig's works at worldcat [link]

Chinese Book Covers

While checking out my town's new rare/used book store, Logos Books, I found this book of a collection of works from China's 'Central Academy of Arts & Design'. The full (and awkwardly translated) titled is "Selections of Designing Work the Central Academy of Arts & Design, 1956-1986" by Zhong Yang, Gong Yi Mei Shu Xue Yuan and She Ji Pin Xuan. I can find no information about the book online. Here are a few of my favorite book covers from the book. I'll post some posters and record designs from the book sometime soon.


Design, Wang Xiaofei


The Selected Works of the Film songs, Chen Shaohua


Clown Hans, Yu Bingnan


Contemporaries, He Yanming


Motherland in My Heart, Wu Guanying


Time and Life, Chen Yadan


Eagle, Ci Xiangqun


Aesop's Fables, Li Meng


Wall, Yue Xin


The Timber Processing and its Utility, Kang Renping


Frontier Town, Kang Renping


Frontier Town, Ren Jianmin


The Selected Works of Zhang Henshui, Yu Bingnan


Gas Press-Container, Kang Renping


The Great Wall, He Yanming


The Spring of the Beauties, Chen Xiaohong

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Found this at my newly reopened local independent bookstore, Logos Books [link]
a few more covers are posted over at my flickr [link]
The Central Academy of Arts & Design (who put out this book) seems to be now known as "China Central Academy Of Fine Arts" [link]

From the Netherlands Architecture Institute

From various collections at the Netherlands Architecture Institute's website.


City on Pampus, Megastructure, by H. Klopma and J.B. Bakema, from the architectural firm Van den Broek and Bakema, drawing, 1964 [link]


Eindhoven city expansion - an expansion model based on a regional concept, J.M. de Casseres, 1930 [link]


Utrecht Music Society, Jupiter Amans, Schipbreuk, PJ C Klaarhamer, 1924 [link]


Expansion plan for the Left Bank of the Maas - Rotterdam map, Granpré Molière, Verhagen and Kok, 1921 [link]


Spring Clothing from Schocken Store, Johan Niegeman, 1926 [link]


Cover of the magazine De 8 and Opbouw, W. la Croix, 1937 [link]


Holland America Line, W. la Croix, no date [link]


Poster for the seventh CIAM congress, Max Huber, 1949 [link]


De Stijl magazine, Theo van Doesburg, 1917 [link]


Contra-construction - Maison Particulière, Theo van Doesburg and architect Cornelis Van Eesteren, 1923 [link]


Van stoel tot stad, book, J.B. Bakema, 1964 [link]


Architecture Exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright,H. Th. Wijdeveld, 1931 [link]


City Hall on the Amstel, Wim Brusse, 1958 [link]


Rietveld, Jan Bons, 1959 [link]


Metal Workers’ Union, W. la Croix, 1927 [link]


Dwelling as an urban roof, collage, Piet Blom, 1965 [link]


Design drawing for name stamp, G.F. la Croix and J.M. van der Mey, 1906 [link]

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all images come from the Netherlands Architecture Institute's website [link]

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov Theatre Posters

I came across a worn Russian book of Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov’s theatre posters, called Teatralʹnyĭ plakat N. Akimova. The book was published in Moscow in 1963 and is now out-of-print, but can be found at a few libraries in the US, UK, and Japan. Below are some of my favorites. EDIT - Huge thanks to Ingvar for providing the below translations.


The Labyrinth

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov (1901 – 1968) was a "Russian stage designer, director, painter and graphic artist of Ukranian birth. He studied in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) from 1915 to 1919 in an artists' workshop under Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Aleksandr Yakovlev and Vasily Shukhayev. From 1920 to 1922 he worked as a stage designer in Khar'kov (now Kharkiv). In 1923 he returned to Petrograd, where he worked as a book illustrator and stage designer at the Theatre of Musical Comedy, the Theatre of Drama and the Gor'ky Bol'shoy Theatre of Drama; he also worked in Moscow, at the Theatre of the Revolution, the Vakhtangov Theatre and the Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). From 1929 he worked as a director, designing his own productions. He was the Art Director of the Leningrad Theatre of Comedy (1935-49), where the most notable productions he directed and designed were Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1938), Lope de Vega's Dog in the Manger and Widow of Valencia (1939) and Yevgeny Shvarts's The Shadow (1946), among others. From 1951 to 1955 Akimov was the artistic director of the Leningrad Soviet Theatre; Shadows (by Saltykov-Shchedrin) and The Case (by Sukhovo-Kobylin) stand out among the productions he directed and designed there. From 1955 to the end of his life he was at the Leningrad Theatre of Comedy as Artistic Director; among his best productions there were Shvarts's An Ordinary Miracle (1956) and The Dragon (1962), and Motley Stories (1960) after Chekhov."-answers.com


The Hunter, 1956


1905


Dictatorship


3 Minute Talk


The Profiteer


Night Shindy


Trees Die Upright


The Suitcase


Seat Nr. 16


The Salesmen of Glory


The Tragic Story of Hamlet the Danish Prince






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brief biography at answers.com [link]
@ worldcat [link]
more posters at Museum of Russian Poster [link]
more of his work at Russian Art & Books [link]
see more from the book at my flickr page [link]