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Ikko Tanaka

Graphic Design 30, 1968

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Bunmei Kaika appearing in prints Meiji 100 / Tadashige Ono
Print Design Laboratory ㉔ Ilyu Stereo Vision / Kohei Sugiura
Recent Japanese poster / Masataka Ogawa
West German poster / Masaru Katsumi
Czech movie poster / Masayoshi Iwabuchi
Hungarian poster / Masayoshi Iwabuchi
Combination of copy and vision Newspaper advertisement excellent work collection / Hideaki Mukai
3 female designers
Harumi Matsumoto sentence: Ryuichi Yamashiro
Rosemary Tissi sentence: Masaru Katsumi
Eiko Ishioka sentence: Katsuhiro Yamaguchi
Claire Tone Design Plan / Akio Kanda
American Letterhead Design / Hiromu Hara
Winter Olympics Grenoble and Sapporo / Masaru Katsumi
3 Typographers / Hiromu Hara
Thoughts on Design ① Design as a self-expression of a corporate entity / Herbert Bayer

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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Ikko Tanaka
Ikko Tanaka was born in 1930 in Nara City. He graduated from the Kyoto School of Fine Arts in 1950 and worked for several companies, including the Osaka Economic Newspaper, before co-founding Nippon Design Center, Inc. In 1963, he established his own firm, the Ikko Tanaka Design Office. Tanaka's awards include a silver medal from the Warsaw International Poster Biennial, the Mainichi Design Award, the New York ADC Award, the Tokyo ADC Membership Award, the Mainichi Art Award, and the Japan Cultural Design Grand Prix. Explore related designers including Yusaku Kamekura, Shigeo Fukuda, and Kiyoshi Awazu. See also Japanese Modernism, Japanese graphic design history, and 1960s graphic design history.
Graphic Design
Graphic Design was a Japanese publication which started in the late 1950s and had a run of 100 issues.

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Graphic Design 30, 1968 | Ikko Tanaka | Japanese Magazine
Graphic Design 30, 1968 | Ikko Tanaka | Japanese Magazine
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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