Content includes:
In the shadow of the Aomori pig: The world of the sketch artist / Toshiharu Oikawa
Japan Style Exhibition / Masaru Katsumi
Outlook for new artists around the world ’80
: Costumes for “Casta Diva”: The encounter between Béjart and Issey Miyake / Masaru Katsumi
Marzena Kawalerowicz/Warsaw / Masaru
Katsumi Illustrations by Kazutaka Shimoda / Mutsuo Sakai
Records of the 14th SDA Award Judging Japan Sign Design Association
The Earth is One / Aaron Marcus
Swedish posters 1895-1979 / Paul Lipschutz
Working on Takeo’s “Handmade Paper of the World” / Kei Mori News
from the activities of the Japan Graphic Designers Association Inc. Donated books: Editorial notes
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:
From the graphic design archive:
Design Archive Feature, Design Education, Members Only Content, Movements
The Bauhaus approach to design emphasised simplicity, functionality, and the integration of modern technologies and materials. A century later, many of the principles taught at the school remain fundamental to contemporary design practices.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design
60 examples of Czech typography from Typografia Vol. 21 (1910). Czech commercial printing and book design as Secession ornament progressed to early modernist typography, with work by Alois Rieger, Methoděj Kaláb, Alois Chvála and many more.
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