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Tsunehisa Kimura

Design (Japan), 088, 1966

Content includes:
Visual design of Nippon Express Izu Fujimi Land / Kazumasa Nagai
Considerations on design: What is industrial design?② / Sennosuke Shimizu
Polish posters②
・Polish poster tradition / Janina Fialkowska
・Seeing the 1st Poster Biennale / Takashi Kono
Current affairs: The structure of imitation / Shinya Izumi
Fragments of Japanese advertising history② Posters① / Hiroshi Hara
Thonet’s Bentwood: The History of Its Creative Technological Development and Form / Katsuhira Toyoguchi
Minami Tada: Between Art and Design / Ryuichi Hamaguchi
Aspen International Design Conference Newsletter to Mr. A / Hiroshi Kojitani
Design Digest
Designer Three-Sided Mirrors: 20 Years of Progress / Masahiro Mori
Scandinavian Lighting Fixtures / Mikiko Ishii

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Tsunehisa Kimura
Tsunehisa Kimura graduated from the Osaka Municipal Institute of Arts and Crafts in 1945 and began his career designing stage sets for Toho Film and Theatre. He later worked in graphic design and advertising, joining the Nippon Design Centre in 1960. Explore related designers including Ikko Tanaka and Tadanori Yokoo. See also Japanese Modernism and 1970s 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), 088, 1966. Cover design by Tsunehisa Kimura
Design (Japan), 088, 1966. Cover design by Tsunehisa Kimura
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