Although he lived a tragically brief life from 1915 to 1955, Alvin Lustig was an American designer who left an indelible mark on the history of graphic design. He started out wanting to be an architect and studied with Frank Lloyd Wright. But, a year later, he abandoned that dream to open up his own Los Angeles design studio in 1936. Best known for his book designs, he was considered the “father of the modern paperback”. From 1945–1946, he worked in editorial design and was the visual research director at Look and was also involved with Art Digest. He was also the first art director of Industrial Design, which began publishing in 1954.

Alvin Lustig's amazing talent for creating visual narratives that captured the imagination inspired me to handcraft and faithfully reproduce 14 book jacket designs originally created by Alvin Lustig for the New Classics Series published by New Directions Books, in 1946.

I drew and entirely reproduced these book jacket designs using a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I reproduced these works as faithfully as possible! My only caveat would be on the matching of colours due to the fact that many of the original artworks had most probably faded with time and wear.