http://www.norelevance.com For lovers of visual junk. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:43:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.norelevance.com/alvin-lustig-book-covers-via-faceout-books/ http://www.norelevance.com/alvin-lustig-book-covers-via-faceout-books/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:46:28 +0000 Art http://www.norelevance.com/?p=428 Thanks to @brandi_duncan for turning me on to FaceOut Books and their inspiring blog, which features among others these wonderful book covers designed by Alvin Lustig. Reminiscent of Alexander Steinweiss’ covers for Columbia records, Lustig exploited the silhouette as design element and hand-drawn scripts to wonderfully tasteful heights. If you’ve read any of the books whose covers he designed for authors as varied as Franz Kafka to Henry James you will probably find that they were equally illustrative from a context standpoint. One can see resemblances to fellow modernist Paul Rand in the geometric and free-form shapes he used as well as his love for color. Check them out and be inspired.

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