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Content includes:
Shiko Munakata Print / Soichi Tominaga
Designer of Saul Bass Space Time / Masaru Katsumi
Printing Design Laboratory ④ Picture Book / Shigeo Fukuda
Ryuichi Yamashiro Works / Masaru Katsumi
Yoichi Midorikawa Landscapes of Europe
Nissenbi’s 10-Year History/Kiyoshi Awazu, Mitsuo Katsui, Shunichiro Komori

Graphic Design / グラフィックデザイン, delved into the world of graphic design and visual culture. The magazine featured a broad range of content, including coverage of cutting-edge Japanese design and its history, as well as international graphic design.

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Graphic Design 4, 1961. Cover design by Ryuichi Yamashiro
Graphic Design 4, 1961. Cover design by Ryuichi Yamashiro
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From the design archive:
From the design archive:
From the design archive:
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Armin Hofmann's publicity for the Stadttheater Basel. The client, in this case, the Municipal Theater of Basel, refused to listen to narrow-minded critics, in spite of the fact that as a state-subsidized enterprise it is accountable to public opinion.
In the late 1960s, IBM was one of the world’s pre-eminent corporations, employing over 250,000 people in 100 countries. While Paul Rand’s creative genius has been well documented, the work of the IBM staff designers who executed his intent outlined in the IBM Design Guide has often gone unnoticed.
Last month (March 2022), I spoke to over fifty Graphic Design undergraduates about the archive and my passion for design history, after which the students had full access to items in the collection and participated in discourse amongst their peers and lecturers. As part of their critical studies unit, the students will be producing essays and content related to the impact, history and aesthetics of selected artefacts.

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Many influential British designers have made their names in the history books. Abram Games, Alan Fletcher, Tom Eckersley and Derek Birdsall, to name a few. But one designer that has always influenced me, not only as inspiration from their design output, but as an example of the role of a designer and the importance of having strong ethics, is Ken Garland. He is known for his innovative and socially responsible approach to graphic design and his involvement in the design community through his teaching, writing and activism. In the second instalment of this series, I will discuss Ken Garland's magazine work from my collection.