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Kohei Sugiura

Design (Japan), 056, 1964

Content includes:
Design Policy of Dai Nippon Printing / Tatsuo FukushimaDai Nippon Printing’s PR personality / Yusaku KamekuraArt Cooley’s Words / Kozo Koike
Various Considerations on Design Presentation / GK Industrial Design Laboratory
Graphic Design in Living Design / Hiromu Hara
Designer Triple Mirror Where am I / Ryuichi Yamashiro
design digest
This design by Neil Fujita / Yusaku Kamekura
Visiting Design Schools in the World ② Royal College of Art, London / Masaaki Tanaka
Denmark Interior Exhibition / Katsuhiko Shiraishi
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in graphic design / Naomi Asakura

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Kohei Sugiura
Kohei Sugiura’s work spans an impressive range of mediums, including record jackets, publication covers, posters, exhibition catalogues, and stamps. He perfectly merged functionality and data visualisation with aesthetics. Explore related designers including Ikko Tanaka and Hiroshi Ohchi. See also Japanese Modernism, Japanese graphic design history, and Magazines.
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), 56, 1964. Cover design by Kohei Sugiura
Design (Japan), 56, 1964. Cover design by Kohei Sugiura

 

Design Japan 56 1964 back

One of twelve issues of Japan's magazine, Design which features a design system by Kohei Sugiura on the cover.
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