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@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:01 AM

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1944
‘Colonial Policy’
Illustration by Peter Piening (1908-1977 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, October 1944
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #PeterPiening

image from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-3.html:
‘M. Peter Piening (1908 - 1977) born in Grabow, Germany, was a German-American graphic designer as well as professor of advertising design and director of the design centre at Syracuse University. Piening spent his early career freelancing as an illustrator and artist for various publishing companies, eventually settling in Paris to work for Conde-Nast's French publication of Vogue. In 1934 he moved to the United States to work in Conde-Nast's New York City office. For the next two decades, Piening worked for many important advertising agencies and magazine publishers, including the N. W. Ayer and J. Walker Thompson agencies and Life and Fortune magazines. As art director for Life in the 1930s and for Fortune in the 1940s, Piening completely redesigned the layout of each magazine. He also redesigned the layouts for thirty-four other major American magazines, including Town & Country and Cosmopolitan.’

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:40 AM

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1954
Cover illustration by S. Neil Fujita (1921-2010 👉ALT)
*Fortune*, October 1954
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #SNeilFujita #graphicdesign #design

‘[Fujita] was born in Waimea, Hawaii. He attended a boarding school in Honolulu, where he adopted the name Neil. He enrolled in Chouinard Art Institute, but his studies were interrupted by WWII & his forced relocation in 1942, first to the Pomona Assembly Centre outside Los Angeles & later to the Heart Mountain Relocation Centre in Wyoming. During his confinement, he worked as the art director of the camp newspaper, the Heart Mountain Sentinel. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1943. Fujita joined a prominent Philadelphia ad agency after completing his studies. He worked for Ayer for three years & during his tenure was awarded an Art Directors gold medal. Columbia Records hired him in 1954 to build a design department to build on the work of Alex Steinweiss who established the concept cover art. In 1957, Fujita left Columbia in order to broaden his portfolio. He taught design at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, ...'
https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021_01_10_archive.html

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:03 AM

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1950
‘Five articles on Du Pont’
Cover of *Fortune*, October 1950
#Illustration by Erberto Carboni (1899-1984)
#FortuneCover #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #ErbertoCarboni #chemicalsindustry #chemicals #DuPont

https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021_01_10_archive.htm:
‘immediately after graduating from the Paolo Toschi Institute of Fine Arts in Parma he made his debut as a caricaturist... Then he dealt with advertising graphics & began his activity as an illustrator... In 1932 he moved to Milan, where he collaborated as an external consultant with Studio Boggeri, of Antonio Boggeri, one of the first masters of communication in Italy, which was the springboard for him. In 1952 he won the ‘Golden Palm of Advertising’ for the Barilla campaign “Con pasta Barilla è sempre Domenica” ... In the early 1950s he carried out numerous prestigious projects for other important companies such as Bertolli, Pavesi, Crodo, Bourbon & Montecatini. [Later] his passion for ‘pure’ painting led him to intensify the artistic pictorial production that he had always continued. He exhibited his work Totem 36, a 6 meters high steel sculpture for the Venice Biennial International Exhibition & held several personal exhibits...’

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 12:33 PM

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1932
Illustration by A. C. (Alonzo C.) Webb (1888-1975)
👉ALT
Cover of *Fortune*, October 1932
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #ACWebb #structuralsteel #construction #skyscraper #constructionworkers

‘Alonzo C. Webb (1888-1975) was an American etcher, architect, painter and illustrator born in Nashville, Tennessee. From 1907 to 1909, he attended the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1912 to 1913 he studied architecture at the University of Illinois. He later attended the Art Students League of New York and worked with Dan Barber, a New York architect. Around 1920, he started etching and his work began appearing frequently in the French weekly L’Illustration. During the 1920s and 1930s Webb lived and worked in both France and the United States. In the late 1930s he moved to London, where he died in 1975.’
Image, and words quoted, from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-1.html

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 8:02 AM

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1938
#Illustration by Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957)
👇🧵
#FortuneCover #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #MiguelCovarrubias
‘Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957) was a Mexican painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ethnologist & art historian. ➡️

Image and words quoted from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-2.html

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:05 AM

Artwork for a (proposed?) cover of *Fortune*. Gouache and ink on board. Ca. 1930-1941.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #ErnestHamlinBaker #FortuneCover

https://www.1stdibs.com/it/arte/disegni-e-acquarelli/disegni-e-acquarelli-interni/ernest-hamlin-baker-fortune-magazine-cover-depression-era-illustration-wpa-industrial-modernist/id-a_4153781/?modal=intlWelcomeModal 3.4.22
DATE https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Fortune/90EAEA8EDFC3EEF5

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:05 AM

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1935
👇🧵
#Illustration by Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889-1975)
Cover of *Fortune*, October 1935
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #ErnestHamlinBaker #harvest #harvester #wheat #grain #farm #agriculture

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 8:08 AM

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1937
👇🧵
(inflationary pressures)
‘Bleached Sulphite Pulp Demand Brings Price Rise’
#Illustration by Paolo Garretto (1903-1989)
Cover of *Fortune*, October 1937
#FortuneCover #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #PaoloGarretto

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:55 AM

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1930
🧵👇
Illustration by Walter Buehr (1897-1971 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, October 1930
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #WalterBuehr #orchard #apples #produce #farming

Walter Buehr was born in Chicago in 1897. After high school he attended several different art schools including the Art Students League of New York (where he later taught), the Detroit School of Design, the Philadelphia School of Industrial Arts, the Art Students League, and he also studied art in Europe.’
image and words quoted from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-1.html

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 6:58 AM

#Fortune for #SEPTEMBER 1944
‘Surplus Disposal’
Illustration by Peter Piening (1908-1977 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, September 1944
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #PeterPiening #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner

Image from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-3.html:
‘M. Peter Piening (1908 - 1977) born in Grabow, Germany, was a German-American graphic designer as well as professor of advertising design and director of the design centre at Syracuse University. Piening spent his early career freelancing as an illustrator and artist for various publishing companies, eventually settling in Paris to work for Conde-Nast's French publication of Vogue. In 1934 he moved to the United States to work in Conde-Nast's New York City office. For the next two decades, Piening worked for many important advertising agencies and magazine publishers, including the N. W. Ayer and J. Walker Thompson agencies and Life and Fortune magazines. As art director for Life in the 1930s and for Fortune in the 1940s, Piening completely redesigned the layout of each magazine. He also redesigned the layouts for thirty-four other major American magazines, including Town & Country and Cosmopolitan.’

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 7:50 AM

#Fortune for #SEPTEMBER 1945
[Victory in Europe theme]
Illustration by Peter Piening (1908-1977 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, September 1945.
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #PeterPiening #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #WW2 #VEDay

‘born in Grabow, Germany, [Piening] was a German-American graphic designer as well as professor of advertising design & director of the design centre at Syracuse University. Piening spent his early career freelancing as an illustrator & artist for various publishing companies, eventually settling in Paris to work for Conde-Nast's French publication of Vogue. In 1934 he moved to the United States to work in Conde-Nast's New York City office. For the next two decades, Piening worked for many important advertising agencies & magazine publishers, including the N. W. Ayer & J. Walker Thompson agencies & Life & Fortune magazines. As art director for Life in the 1930s & for Fortune in the 1940s, Piening completely redesigned the layout of each magazine. He also redesigned the layouts for thirty-four other major American magazines, including Town & Country and Cosmopolitan.’ - https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-3.html 24

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 3:39 PM

#Fortune for #SEPTEMBER 1951
Illustration by Walter Allner (1909-2006 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, September 1951
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #WalterAllner #graphicdesign

Walter Allner (1909-2006) Designer, typographer and painter Walter Allner was trained at the Bauhaus where he studied with masters Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Joost Schmidt. He was the Paris editor of Graphis magazine from 1945-1948 and in 1949 emigrated to the US. Allner was an influential art director at Fortune magazine from 1963-1974.
During his 12 years at Fortune, in addition to maintaining the magazine’s Bauhaus-inspired contemporary typography and elegant overall design scheme, he personally created 79 covers, which ran the gamut from minimalist graphic abstraction to complex photographic collage.
image & words quoted from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021_01_10_archive.html

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 7:52 AM

#Fortune for #SEPTEMBER 1952
‘In this issue: The Language of Advertising’
#Illustration by Alvin Lustig (1915-1955 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, September 1952
#FortuneCover #illustrationart #illustrationartists #AlvinLustig #graphicdesign #language #advertising

‘Alvin Lustig (1915-1955) was born in Denver, Colorado. He was a book designer, graphic designer, and typeface designer. Lustig has been honoured by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the `Art Directors club Hall of Fame for his significant contributions to American design. He studied design at Los Angeles City College, Art Centre College of Design, and independently with architect Frank Lloyd Wright at his Taliesin studio, and French painter Jean Charlot. He began his career designing book jackets in 1937 in Los Angeles, California. In 1944 he became Director of Visual Research for Look Magazine. He also designed for Fortune, and Girl Scouts of the United States.'
image and words quoted from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021_01_10_archive.html 1

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 8:53 AM

#Fortune for #SEPTEMBER 1946
‘A New Scale of Sky Speeds’
#illustration by Arthur Lidov (1917-1990 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, September 1946
#FortuneCover #illustrationart #illustrationartists #ArthurLidov #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #aviation #rocketscience

‘Arthur Herschel Lidov (1917-1990) was born in Chicago and earned a degree in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1936 and was a Graduate Fellow in Art History in 1938 and 1939. As an artist, Lidov was largely self-taught, specialising in scientific and technical graphics. Lidov created the cover art for the 1950 first edition copy of The Martian Chronicle by Ray Bradbury. He contributed artistic backgrounds to many of the major magazines of his time such as Time, Fortune, The Saturday Evening Post and other special-interest magazines.’
image and words quoted from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-4.html

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 7:52 AM

#Fortune for #SEPTEMBER 1954
‘In this issue: Ford’s Fight for First’
Cover #Illustration by George Giusti (1908-1990 👉ALT)
#FortuneCover #Illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #GeorgeGiusti #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #automotiveindustry #FordMotorCo

image from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021_01_10_archive.html 14.2.23
‘George Giusti (1908-1990) was born in Milan, Italy. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and did graphic design there before deciding to move to Zürich, Switzerland, where he opened a design studio, which he operated for seven years. While on a visit to the United States in 1938, Giusti was induced to stay by the several excellent commissions that were offered to him, including the opportunity to collaborate with Herbert Matter on the design of the Swiss pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Giusti is well known in Europe and America for his architecture and sculpture, as well as his graphics. Over the years, Giusti garnered more than ten gold and silver medals and eighty other awards and citations.’
https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-3.html

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:51 AM

#Fortune for #SEPTEMBER 1953
‘Wonder-Drug Trouble at Parke, Davis’
Cover illustration by Walter Heinz Allner (1909-2006 👉ALT)
#FortuneCover #Illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #WalterAllner #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #PharmaceuticalIndustry #ParkeDavis

image from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021_01_10_archive.html
‘Allner was a designer, typographer and painter who pioneered computer-designed magazine layout. He collaborated with engineers to develop technology-aided design. In the late 1920s he studied at the Dessau Bauhaus. His teachers included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Joost Schmidt and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.
During his 12 years at Fortune masgazine, in addition to maintaining the magazine’s Bauhaus-inspired contemporary typography and elegant overall design scheme, he personally created 79 covers, which ran the gamut from minimalist graphic abstraction to complex photographic collage. ...Allner also worked as an abstract painter (influenced by Josef Albers) and created enigmatic refuse-assemblages. ...’
http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/agent/627#:~:text=Allner%20was%20a%20designer%2C%20typographer,Schmidt%20and%20Laszlo%20Moholy%2DNagy.

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 7:34 AM

#Fortune for #SEPTEMBER 1947
Illustration by Arthur Lidov (1917-1990 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, September 1947
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #ArthurLidov #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #motor

‘Arthur Herschel Lidov (1917-1990) was born in Chicago and earned a degree in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1936 and was a Graduate Fellow in Art History in 1938 and 1939. As an artist, Lidov was largely self-taught, specialising in scientific and technical graphics. Lidov created the cover art for the 1950 first edition copy of The Martian Chronicle by Ray Bradbury. He contributed artistic backgrounds to many of the major magazines of his time such as Time, Fortune, The Saturday Evening Post and other special-interest magazines.’
image and words quoted from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-4.html

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 7:07 AM

#Fortune for #SEPTEMBER 1950
Illustration by Kenneth Davies (1925-2017 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, September 1950
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #KennethDavies #graphicdesign #AmericanArt #eye #ear #textediting

Davies 'attended Yale University, where he painted his 1st important oil painting, "Lighthouses in the Alps". The work captured the attention of New York City cultural figure Lincoln Kirstein, who helped Davies attain showings of his early works in 1950 at the Hewitt Gallery. He also received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation fellowship that year. His first solo show was at the Hewitt Gallery in 1951, and every painting sold. He taught at the Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut. During his 40 years there, he taught such notable artists as Joseph Reboli; & eventually became the Dean. In 1962, he decided to refocus on his still-life painting, & enjoyed further success, with gallery representation from Hirschl & Adler Galleries. His first solo show there was in 1978. Davies' labour-intensive technique involves sable brushes, resulting in paintings that appear almost like photographs, but with trompe-l'œil & Surrealist effects.’
https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021_01_10_archive.html