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Ryuichi Yamashiro

Design (Japan), 026, 1961

Content includes:
7th Mainichi Industrial Design Award / Masaru Katsumi
Corporate Design Policy Sony / Ryuichi Hamaguchi; Kuwasawa Design School students
Module Architecture Exhibition ’61 Scale of Life From the Module Exhibition
・Module in Graphic Design / Hiroshi Hara
・Cooperating with the Module Exhibition / Kimura Tsunehisa
The Story of Modules / Uchida Yoshiya
Report on the 4th AGI Exhibition / Kono Takashi
Advertising Photos and Photography / Fukushima Tatsuo
Mikado Tableware / Shimazaki Makoto
Designer’s Eyes: Typographic Posters / Hara Hiroshi
Design Plaza
Subari: Just Design / Kuramata Shiro

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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. 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), 026, 1961
Design (Japan), 026, 1961. Cover design by Ryuichi Yamashiro
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