Design (Japan), 007, 1960

Content includes:
Vision from the sky Ryuichi Hamaguchi Photo: Yukio Futagawa
Duo Color Page Mark of Nippon Design Center – Yusaku Kamekura
Looking at textile designs for overseas interiors – Tadao Matsui
Serial Roundtable 5 on the Dress Design World – Shigehei Ito, Yoko Kuwazawa, Masaru Katsumi
Knife, fork and spoon – Nobuya Abe
Dali and jewel design – Masaru Katsumi
Temporal and spatial consciousness essay on design logic – Susumu Okada
His craft design from the workplace – Tatsumi Kato
Nothing design Shoe wooden pattern Nobuyoshi Mizuno Photo: Hisashi Furuya

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Yusaku Kamekura
Yusaku Kamekura, born in 1915, graduated from the Institute of New Architecture and Industrial Arts. In 1960, he helped establish Nippon Design Center Inc. and served as its managing director. The following year, in 1961, he received a grand prize from the Ministry of Education. In 1962, he transitioned to working as a freelance designer. Explore related designers including Yusaku Kamekura and Ikko Tanaka. See also Idea magazine, Japanese Modernism, and Japanese 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), 7, 1960. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
Design (Japan), 7, 1960. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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