Kazumasa Nagai

Design (Japan), 72, 1965

Content includes:Modern hand lettering / Masaaki Tanaka
Image of ideas – Considerations on design / Shigeo Hattori
Taipogura walking diary 2 America / Hiroshi Hara
From the 10th Exhibition of outstanding train posters
Report on the 2nd Japan Design Student Conference
・Declaration of the Tokyo Conference of the Japan Design Student Conference
・Reflections and direction of the Japan Design Student Union / Naoki Yoshimoto, Sakiko Otsu
・Participating in the conference / Mikio Takahashi, Akira Takagi, Akiyasu Furuya
・Design student union and design students / Susumu Hayashi
・The 1st Japanese Design Student Exhibition
From the Belle Epoque Exhibition / Akiyoshi Uno
Graphic design with a Nishijin theme / Group no Zaki
Stig Lindberg’s playing cards – This design ⑪ / Takashi Kono
Design Digest
Happy Donko – Designer’s Three-Fold Mirror / Yoshio Samata
Mark phenomenology – Mark design seen as lettering ② 12 checkpoints / Takao Imazu
Display design course ⑥ final episode
・About fair displays / Akira Shimizu
・An introductory personal theory on display design / Toshio De
Radar
・Imaginary images / Tadanori Yokoo
[and others]

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Kazumasa Nagai
Kazumasa Nagai was born in 1929 in Osaka. He left the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1951 and co-founded the Nippon Design Center in 1960. Nagai achieved notable recognition by winning first place in the design competitions for the official symbols of the Sapporo Winter Olympic Games (1966) and EXPO Okinawa (1972). Between 1960 and 1988, he received numerous prestigious awards, including the JAAC Award, Asahi Advertising Award, Mainichi Advertising Award, Yamana Award, and multiple accolades from the Tokyo ADC Show. Explore related designers including Ikko Tanaka and Yusaku Kamekura. 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), 72, 1965. Cover design by Kazumasa Nagai
Design (Japan), 72, 1965. Cover design by Kazumasa Nagai
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