Design (Japan), 017, 1961

Content includes:
Air France Tokyo Office Airline Design Policy / Ryuichi Hamaguchi; Design / Charlotte Perriand
Munari’s Calendar and Ashtray / Tsuguo Ogata
French Tapestry
A Political Party Poster (Frankfurt) / Hiroshi Hara
Lettering Design Movement in the 20th Century / Nicolette Gray
Cover design Nippon Design Center
The Owl and the Designer / Yusaku Kamekura (Bruno Munari, Herbert Bayer, Saul Bass, Isamu Noguchi, etc.)
Ivy on the wall / Kumamoto Technical High School
9th Mainichi Industrial Design Award Jury Essays / Iwataro Koike
28th Mainichi Commercial Design Award
1960 Asahi Advertising Award
5th Export Textile Design Competition Prize Winners
Design Plaza
・A Funny Story / Hisashi Nishikorimoto
・The Need for Individual Creativity / Kenkichi Shimada
Design Digest
Designer’s Window: The Story of Wood② Design of Wood Products / Koichi Fukui

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Ryuichi Yamashiro
Ryuichi Yamashiro (1920–1997) 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. Explore related designers including Yusaku Kamekura and Ikko Tanaka. See also Japanese Modernism, Japanese graphic design history, 1960s 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), 017, 1961
Design (Japan), 017, 1961. Cover design by Ryuichi Yamashiro

 

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