Program used: Adobe illustrator,
Adobe Photoshop
Alvin Lustig
I designed a memorial panel and four stamps
for Alvin Lustig, who was a renowned American
book designer, graphic designer and typeface
designer of the 1940s.
designer of the 1940s.
The stamps and panel capture Alvin Lustig’s modern style
with simplified shapes and flat colors.
Alvin Lustig Stamps
Alvin Lustig Panel
The
panel design is inspired by Lustig’s book cover
design called, the man who died. The black
figure alludes to Alvin Lustig’s final movements.
The green shapes with white line patterns
symbolize his soul.
As it lives his body, he is
immortalized in his work, symbolized as four
stamps in the panel.The writing in braille alludes to Alvin lustig’s
fading vision. Even though he became blind
in his final years, he never stopped working
as a designer.