Luba Lukova: Designing Justice

Designer and artist Luba Lukova creates images that she hopes will catalyze action and change the world. Her thought-provoking posters address essential themes of humanity and injustice worldwide. Her messages help viewers develop empathetic understanding for social and cultural issues through indelible metaphors and an economy of line, color, and text.  

Expressing commentary on complex social issues has been Luba Lukova’s career-long focus; she firmly believes that art is central to human existence and that morality and creativity are aligned.

In 2008, Lukova released her critically acclaimed Social Justice portfolio, which addressed themes including, but not limited to, peace, censorship, immigration, ecology, hunger, and corruption. The series of 12 iconic images quickly became a best-selling publication, and requests for exhibitions and reproduction began pouring in from around the globe. The collection was included in the prestigious art exhibit at Former President Barack Obama’s first inauguration in Washington, D.C., and it it has been used in more recent protests in Turkey, Greece, Israel, France, and even here, in the United States.

In 2017, nine years after the collection’s initial publication, MODA presented Luba Lukova: Designing Justice. The posters were just as relevant as they had been in 2008, and Lukova continues to create new social commentary work to this day.