’12 Japanese Masters is a triumph and tribute to the Designers who, in the 1960s and ’70s, brought Japan to the attention of the international design world. It includes insightful profiles and stunning visuals by Designers Koichi Sato, Issey Miyake, Takenobu Igarashi, Shigeo Fukuda, Tadanori Yokoo, Eiko Ishioka, Toshiyuki Kita, Yusaku Kamekura, Kiyoshi Awazu, Mitsuo Katsui, Kazumasa Nagai and Ikko Tanaka. Longtime Graphis contributor Maggie Kinser Saiki spent 15 years in Japan writing about Japanese Design, business, and traditional rural culture and industry.’
Design Archive Feature, Illustration, Members Only Content
Little is known about the talented designer Günther Glückert. Born during the 1930s, a period that proved less than conducive to nurturing youthful artistic endeavours, did not halt Glückert's path of becoming a talented designer.
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Mark Bloom has designs for globally recognised brands, produces some of the finest, most accessible modern typefaces and heads up Mash Creative and CoType Foundry. His type foundry has always been a port of call for our studio's brand projects and he continues to develop these, each with a fantastic print specimen.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
An overview of Graphic Design from Japan from the year 1960, complemented by 50 scanned images from Annual of Advertising Art in Japan 1960 (Bijyutu Shuppan Sha, 1960).
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