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Ryuichi Yamashiro - Japanese Graphic Designer

Design (Japan), 026, 1961

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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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  • 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), 026, 1961
Design (Japan), 026, 1961. Cover design 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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