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Ryuichi Yamashiro - Japanese Graphic Designer

Design (Japan), 023, 1961

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Content includes:
Reconsidering Art Nouveau / Kohei Abe
Textile design
・The problem of craft and mass production in textiles / Tsuneko Yokota
・Internationality or nationality? / Tadakuni Matsui
・Good design in textile design / Hiroshi Awatsuji
See the 2nd Tendo Woodworks Exhibition
・The future of molded plywood furniture / Toyoguchi Katsuhei
・Molded plywood technology / Kobayashi Yasuji
・On the planned production of wooden furniture / Noguchi Juro
Design prospects in a socialist country 3: Czechoslovakian designers and their works / Hayashi Reiko
The last design of my life in Milan / Hara Hiroshi
From the Japan New Craft ’61 New Crafts for Living Exhibition
Spherical gas holder / Suzuki Katsuhiko
Design Plaza

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  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Ryuichi Yamashiro
  • Year: 1961
  • Client/Publisher: Bijutsu Shuppansha
  • Size: 298mm x 210mm
Ryuichi Yamashiro (1920–1992) was a pioneering Japanese graphic designer and modernist, inspired by Bauhaus principles and artists like Joan Miró. He co-founded the Nippon Design Center and created iconic works such as Tree, Woods, Forest (1955), housed at MoMA.

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Design (Japan), 023, 1961
Design (Japan), 023, 1961. Cover design by Ryuichi Yamashiro
Ryuichi Yamashiro (1920–1992) was a pioneering Japanese graphic designer and modernist, inspired by Bauhaus principles and artists like Joan Miró. He co-founded the Nippon Design Center and created iconic works such as Tree, Woods, Forest (1955), housed at MoMA.
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