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Content includes:
Picture scrolls of Japan / Hideo Okudaira
Space and Perspective in Picture Scrolls / Kiyoo Koyama
Modern French posters from the idea to the present / Masaru Katsumi
Bruno Munari’s Xerography / Shigeo Fukuda, Yoshio Yonekawa
World Trademarks and Symbols of Yusaku Kamekura / Kazumasa Nagai
Printing Laboratory ⑳ / Takeshi Otaka, R Printing
Pushpin Studio and Paul Davis / Ikko Tanaka, Tadanori Yokoo

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 20, 1965. Cover design by Yuito Nadamoto
Graphic Design 20, 1965. Cover design by Yuito Nadamoto
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Victorian Graphic Design left a mark on both British and American design history. In Britain, the ornate embellishments served as a symbol of prosperity and cultural values. Meanwhile, America embraced the combination of various design elements to navigate the complexities of a rapidly changing society driven by industrialisation and consumerism.
“They’ll never stand for that” and “It’s too modern” are, as George Plante aptly puts it, the restraintive thoughts which beset a commercial artist who tries to let himself go.

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Katayama worked in several art and design disciplines from graphic design and sculpture to environmental works and sculpture. His design work features rhythms and patterns and has a resemblance to modern jazz and the studies of Josef Albers.

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Theo Crosby was born in South Africa in 1925 and moved to Britain in the late 1940s. He was a highly skilled designer, architect and sculptor. He became the technical editor of Architectural Design magazine in 1953 and remained in the post for almost a decade. The large format magazines feature an array of content including information on buildings, materials and architectural plans.