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Ryuichi Yamashiro - Japanese Graphic Designer

Design (Japan), 027, 1961

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Content includes:
Seeing the Good Design Exhibition ’61 / Michio Sugi
The 8th All Japan Automobile Show / Kenichi Shibata
Overseas automobile design / Izuo Ishii
Brazilian Concrete poetry
・About figurative poetry / Yasuo Fujitomi
・Untitled / Katsue Kitazono
Today’s ideas on furniture design / Tadaomi Mizunoe
Deck chair design / Koichi Oritate
Where to put up posters / Hiroshi Hara
Takeyarai ＜Nothing but Design＞ / Ikko Tanaka
Design Plaza
・Topics on design in prefab / Masaya Fujimoto

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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), 027, 1961
Design (Japan), 027, 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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