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Ryuichi Yamashiro

Design (Japan), 027, 1961

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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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), 027, 1961
Design (Japan), 027, 1961. Cover design by Ryuichi Yamashiro
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