Graphic Design 35, 1969

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Content includes:
Japanese pattern, Fugetsu by Kiyoshi Awazu
20th Century Master Series 2 Masaru Katsumi, Abram Games
Crosby | Fletcher | Forbes by Kazumasa Nagai
The whole picture of Gerard Ifer Masaru Katsumi, a typical Swiss school

Caricatureist Makoto Wada by Jinichi Uekusa
Masayoshi Nakajo’s recent work by Toshi Ejima
Tokyo Art Directors Club Award Winning Work ’69 by Masataka Ogawa
Technological development of Techne Map Research Institute

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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Graphic Design 35, 1969. Cover design by Makoto Wada
Graphic Design 35, 1969. Cover design by Makoto Wada
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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After researching further into the work designed by their practice, I found ten programmes designed between 1958 and 1960. These programmes were designed for a variety of live jazz events in Germany and all followed the same format.
The background of Kamekura's mark designs is his boldness in eliminating all the waste, combining simplification derived from Japanese traditional family crests and Western intellectual mechanics of formation with a sharp modern sense of composition.

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The dedication of Gebrauchsgraphiks editors and publishers significantly influenced the spread and impact of graphic design, documenting countless designers who might otherwise have been forgotten over the last century since its first issue hit newsstands. Design magazines play a crucial role in supporting the design profession and remain vital resources for designers and historians alike.

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These one-colour forms have a playful but structured aesthetic through their geometric forms, they remind me of the abstract line drawings of Picasso blended with Jan Tschichold and the New Typography.