Design (Japan), 164, 1972

Content includes:
Printing Image⑫ Collage’72 / Ryuichi Yamashiro
Self-evident Space 72⑦ City・November 13, 1972 / Daido Moriyama
Prop Art⑫ Record Jacket / Makoto Wada
The World of Katsuo Matsumura Furniture made from Shinshu larch
5th Tokyo International Lighting Design Competition ’72: Exhibition of invited works and prize-winning works
Invited works: Minoru Takeyama, Arata Isozaki, Shintaro Tanaka, Mikiko Ishii, Takami Takamichi Ito, Masayuki Kurokawa, Shiro Kuramata, Kenji Ekuan, Satoshi Takami, Minami Tada, Naoto Yokoyama, Shigeo Fukuda, Susumu Kitahara, Kazuo Motosawa
Space of Vulgarity ⑪ Poisonous Balance / Tomomi Muramatsu; Photography: Takao Niikura
Current Magazine Theory Notes ⑪ Random Notes for Magazine Theory / Tetsuo Shimizu
Adventures of the Circle ⑪ From Moonlight to Enkou / Shinichi Kusamori; Illustrations: Arata Isozaki
Dialogue between Material and Form ⑫ Alienation, or the End of the Image / Koichiro Ishizaki
Decorative Space Theory ⑫ Texture of the World / Umino Hiroshi
Written words ⑪ Final note: Towards the semiotics of the city / Taki Koji
Design digest / Ishiwata Hisao
ID rethinking: Storage furniture design ② / Ishiwata Hisao
Award certificate and trophy design
VASE/Fault line: Sakaizawa Takashi + Yokoyama Naoto exhibition

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Kōji Kusabuka
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 No.164 December 1972
Design No.164 December 1972. Cover design by Kōji Kusabuka
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