George Giusti was born in Milan in 1908 and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. He worked in Milan and Zurich before emigrating to the United States in 1938, where he built a distinguished career as an illustrator and graphic designer.
His covers for Fortune, Holiday, and Time magazine are fine examples of mid-century American editorial illustration, combining a European modernist sensibility with the bold, immediate communication demanded by American magazine culture.
He also produced extensive work in packaging and corporate identity, and his illustrations appeared in Graphis and other leading design publications of the period. His career bridges the European and American traditions of postwar graphic design in a way that few of his contemporaries achieved. He was one of many Italians who moved to America and was commissioned by Fortune magazine for a cover illustration.
