Content includes:
Choju-Giga / Sakon So
Hermann Bolman’s pictorial map / Masaru Katsumi
Symposium / Issues of Functional Maps and Deformation Maps / Shoshichi Nomura, Member Tanabe, Takanori Makiya, Kohei Sugiura, Osamu Takata, Nobuo Nakagaki, Akio Kanda
Lumia Art / Walter H. Arner
Enzo Mari’s World Order and Freedom Issues / Shigeo Fukuda
Two corporate advertisements Newspaper advertisement excellent work collection ② / Hideo Mukai
Takeshi Otaka’s recent work / Yoshio Hayakawa
Yuichi Nishiwaki Works / Tsunehisa Kimura
Shigeo Fukuda’s 3D graphic / Masataka Ogawa
Printing + Design (2) Limits of colour values / Saburo Tanaka
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.
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Yoshio Hayakawa is one of Japan’s most influential post-war poster designers. His work represents a fusion of traditional Japanese art and European modernism often using soft, poetic brushstrokes and refined colour palettes and capturing the elegance of Japanese aesthetics while integrating the clean lines and bold visual language of Western design.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Movements, Regional Histories
Japanese modern design was heavily influenced by European art movements, particularly modernism and the Bauhaus school. As Japan's advertising industry expanded, it increasingly drew from Western culture, especially television and film, resulting in designs that were eclectic, vibrant, and infused with modernist energy.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature
Among the young graphic artists of Berlin, who set to work after the war, Hans Adolf Albitz and Ruth Albitz-Geiß can claim special attention. In a short time, at a period when economic conditions were pretty unfavourable, they worked themselves so to the fore that their names came to mean something in Berlin publicity, and in western Germany their posters are known and appreciated, too.
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