Content includes:
Traditional Japanese packaging / Hideyuki Oka
The world of Yoji Kuri / Ippei Ito
American book designer: George Lennox / Masaru Katsumi
Printing Design Laboratory ⑰ / Koichiro Inagaki + Zenzo Obiya + Naoya Sugiki
North, South, East, West / Masaru Katsumi
Shakespeare play illustration
Will Burtin’s Landscape in the New Age of Science
Kappei Toyoguchi and the cruising trade fair ship Sakura Maru
avant-garde musical posters
Exhibition / Kazuo Shinohara + Kiyoshi Awazu + Shuntaro Tanikawa + Setsu Asakura
Hidetoshi Umeda and the Bunshun Manga Award
design / Yoshitaro Isaka + Koichi Tsuchiya
Shiro Miyagiri and the Two Buses
Kohei Sugiura and Doncho at the Children’s Hall
Match heaven, Japan, 1 / Masaru Katsumi
Design puzzle / Masaru Katsumi
Graphic Design / グラフィックデザイン, delved into the world of graphic design and visual culture. The magazine featured a broad range of content, including coverage of cutting-edge Japanese design and its history, as well as international graphic design.
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Design Archive Feature, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content
The supplement in the November issue of Der Druckspiegel from 1964 featured a ton of work designed by Peter Steiner, a graphic artist; Peter Beck, his colleague; and Rolf Herkner, a photographer. The three of them worked in collaboration to design ‘graphic-typographic-photographic experiments’.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
A 1936 article on Walter Spiegel, originally in German and English, published in Gebrauchsgraphik, February 1936.
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Book Reviews & Press Releases, Magazines & Publishing
As a champion of graphic design history, I was thrilled to find the upcoming book "Penrose 1964-73: The Herbert Spencer Years," a captivating visual anthology dedicated to honouring Spencer's legacy as a trailblazer in modern typography. Spanning 288 pages, this book commemorates Spencer's influential editorship at the Penrose Annual from 1964 to 1973.
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