Content includes:
The spirit of Mexican folk art / Toyoun Ohara
Japanese and Western styles / Hidetoshi Kato
Sony Building / Ryuichi Hamaguchi
Sony’s design and its spirit / Yasuo Kuroki
1966 British Duke of Edinburgh Award and Design Centre Award / Yuo Nashiya
CADET CHAPEL U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY / Shinya Izumi + Hiroshi Matsumoto
A never ending story / Kanji Sasaki
Design Digest
New York’s Japan Art Festival / Koji Kamiya
10 people’s thoughts on the decision to make the official symbol of the Japan World Expo
・The era of the “cherry blossom” is over / Kiyoshi Awazu
・Problems with the sense of figuration and technology / Akira Uno
・As a challenge for the design world / Hideyuki Oka
・A nomination competition that symbolizes the current state of graphic design / Akio Kanda
・There is no dream in the cherry blossom mark. There is no dream / Hiroshi Manabe
・Exposing the problems of the design movement / Hideo Mukai
・Expectations for counterarguments / Tadanori Yokoo
・There is no redo in professional work / Yoshiro Yamashita
・I wanted a careful decision / Renzo Yamazaki
・The creator is the victim / Makoto Wada
“Four faces” for the Dutch national mine / Will van Sanbeek
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Movements, Regional Histories
Japanese modern design was heavily influenced by European art movements, particularly modernism and the Bauhaus school. As Japan's advertising industry expanded, it increasingly drew from Western culture, especially television and film, resulting in designs that were eclectic, vibrant, and infused with modernist energy.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design
60 examples of Czech typography from Typografia Vol. 22 (1911). Czech commercial printing at the crossroads of Art Nouveau and early modernism, with work by Methoděj Kaláb, Alois Chvála, V. H. Brunner and many more.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
A few years ago the publicity department of Siam di Tella found a collaborator who early in his studies of architecture was attracted by the problems of visual art. His name is Guillermo González Ruiz he was born in Chascomus (Province of Buenos Aires) in 1937. Between 1957 and 1960 he received 18 awards in poster competitions, some of which were of particular importance.
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