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Graphic Design 49, 1973

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Content includes:
Shinichi Saito’s Goze Diary / Masaru Katsumi
The Hundred Faces of Bruno Munari
Tokyo ADC + New York ADC Tokyo Joint Exhibition / Kazumasa Nagai, Hideo Mukai
Seymour Chwast / Martin S. Moskoff
Image messenger Kazuyuki Goto / Junichi Yano
Erwin Halpern, Swiss Advertising Agency in Zurich
Requiem for Tom Lee / 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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Ikko Tanaka, Kazuyuki Goto
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 49, 1973. Cover design by Ikko Tanaka, Kazuyuki Goto
Graphic Design 49, 1973. Cover design by Ikko Tanaka, Kazuyuki Goto

 

Graphic Design 49, 1973 - Erwin Halpern, Swiss Advertising Agency in Zurich
Graphic Design 49, 1973 – Erwin Halpern, Swiss Advertising Agency in Zurich
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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