John Follis Arts & Architecture Covers

"Follis designed and illustrated many covers for this publication, first, from 1942 to 1944, for art director Alvin Lustig, and then as art director himself. Follis’s covers display his bold yet refined sense of composition and his great sensitivity to form and color. The same sensibility marks the planters he created for Architectural Pottery, the operation he cofounded in 1950 and whose elegant modern forms became icons of California’s outdoor leisure lifestyle. Like his modernist colleagues, he believed good design could improve the world." –Louise Sandhaus, Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design 1936-1986, pp. 64