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Yusaku Kamekura

Design (Japan), 015, 1960

Content includes:
Christmas cards and the design movement / Masaru Katsumi
Christmas cards from design students / Masaaki Tanaka
New Japanese Good Design Exhibition / Kiyoshi Seike
Kunio Uchida and John Chappell Ceramics Two-person Exhibition
Furniture from the 24th Shinseisaku Exhibition
Automobile shows and the problem of miniature cars / Torao Saito, Haruo Ogura
Paris Salon / Satoshi Oshita
Functional design and humans / Naokatsu Kumagai
Practice in materials, structure and form as BASIC DESIGN / Masaki Takayama
Designer’s window: Printing knowledge 8: Copper convexity and design / Koike Mitsuzo
This month’s design: Skiing / Kamekura Yusaku
Coffee bean bag: A simple design / Otsuji Seiji
Stained glass / Rouault
From the workplace / Hayakawa Yoshio
Design digest
Design Plaza
Graphic design impressions / Nishimura Toshio
Architectural producer / Hayashi Masako
Design and civic life / Endo Takeo

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Yusaku Kamekura
Yusaku Kamekura, born in 1915, graduated from the Institute of New Architecture and Industrial Arts. In 1960, he helped establish Nippon Design Center Inc. and served as its managing director. The following year, in 1961, he received a grand prize from the Ministry of Education. In 1962, he transitioned to working as a freelance designer. Explore related designers including Yusaku Kamekura and Ikko Tanaka. See also Idea magazine, Japanese Modernism, and Japanese graphic design history.
Design (Japan)
'Design' was launched in 1959 as a general design magazine in Japan. The covers featured the artwork of many great designers including Yusaku Kamekura, Kiyoshi Awazu, Shigeo Fukuda, Mitsuo Katsui and Ikko Tanaka.

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Design (Japan), 015, 1960
Design (Japan), 015, 1960. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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