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Elaine Lustig Cohen: Modern Graphic Designer

February 7, 1995 – May 23, 1995

United States of America, XXXII International Biennial Exposition of Art, Venice, Italy, © Elaine Lustig Cohen, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Elaine Lustig Cohen: Modern Graphic Designer

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY
Billiard Room

Books, stationery, signage, and other works reveal Cohen's importance in the evolution of design. One of the first women with a successful independent graphic design practice, Cohen sought to integrate ideas from European modernism into the context of American printed media during the 1950s and 1960s.

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