It’s beginning to dawn on me that Brooklyn has more than its fair share of outstanding designers – just stumbled on the site for Kind Company, based in Williamsburg. Amazing work – not least of which is a site dedicated to the work of the designer Alvin Lustig. As a non-design person, I know a little about Henry Dreyfuss and Paul Rand, but until recently hadn’t heard of Lustig. Look at his work and then look at the dates – Images from the late 1930′s look to my eye like what I imagined would be the best work of the late 1950′s. But the Lustig site is only one of many cool projects from Kind Company:
Don’t miss their gallery of logos and identities Neighbors – and in the mystery that is the unfinished design of the New York City mass transit infrastructure – perversely best reached via subway into Manhattan.
See also “A Lustig for Life,” by Aaron Brill, published in Dwell magazine. .
