Content includes:
Printing Image ⑥ Image Light / Fumiko Hibino
Trivial space 72 ⑤City / Naoki Yanagimoto
Prop Art ⑥ Let’s study a little more now / Keisuke Nagatomo, Shinzo Higurashi, Seitaro Kuroda
Space of obscenity ⑤ Laughter in the station building / Tomomi Muramatsu; Photo: Takao Niikura
Current magazine review ⑤ Trick of the geocentric theory / Tetsuo Shimizu; Illustration: Keishiro Komatsu
Toshio Matsumoto’s experimental film
Series ⑥ Adventure of the Circle: Tatji Morohashi “Great Kan-Japanese Dictionary” / Shinichi Kusamori; Photo: Kishin Shinoyama
Series ⑥ Dialogue between matter and form: About ant collections or dense spaces / Koichiro Ishizaki
Series ⑥ Decorative Space Theory: Botany of Arabesque / Hiroshi Unno
Series ⑥ Written Words, Replicated World ② / Koji Taki
Book review “The Myth of Seeing” / Jun Miyagawa
Design Digest Vacuum Cleaner and Others / Hisao Ishiwata
Rethinking ID⑨ Design for children / Tetsuo Arakawa
From Naoki Hiramatsu’s illustration collection
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Movements
A 1,500 essay on the transformative era of graphic design from the 1970s to the 1990s. Moving beyond the constraints of modernism, designers like Wolfgang Weingart and April Greiman redefined visual communication through bold experimentation with type, colour, and early computer graphics. This essay highlights how postmodernism and New Wave design introduced complexity, individuality, and digital innovation in to graphic design.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
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. Drawing on his background in architecture, Sugiura applied a systematic, programmatic methodology to graphic design, similar to the approach of Swiss designer Karl Gerstner.
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Corporate Identity & Branding, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Typography & Type Design
Working alongside André Gürtler and Bruno Pfäffli, Adrian Frutiger designed many logo designs. Here is a selection of the designs which were featured in Der Druckspiegel, December 1961. I have also translated and rewritten the descriptions to provide more depth.
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