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Ryuichi Yamashiro - Japanese Graphic Designer

Design (Japan), 022, 1961

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Content includes:
Talking about Josef Muller Brockmann / Interview: Kazumasa Nagai + Shutaro Mukai
Synthesis of Mexican monuments and art / Photography: Yukio Futagawa; Text: Makoto Suzuki
Glass / Makoto Shimazaki
Design prospects of a certain socialist country 2 Design education in Czechoslovakia / Reiko Hayashi
Designer’s Eyes: The Anti-Atomic Bomb Movement in West Germany / Hiroshi Hara
New Generation Ideas Exhibition
Growing Living / Chiba University Architectural Design Group
Rice Scoop: “Just a Design” / Seiichi Koyanagi
Designer’s Windows: The Story of Wood ⑦ Wood in Living Spaces / Yujiro Yamaguchi
Design Digest
Design Plaza
To Ando / Yusaku Kamekura
To Ando / Ken Sakakibara

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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), 022, 1961. Cover 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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