Kazumasa Nagai

Graphic Design 83, 1981

Content includes:
12 posters arching the Pacific
Gravity Is My Enemy – life and art of Mark Hicks
ICOGRADA Philips Award 1981
4 Box-er-exhibition by 4 package designers
global new waves in 80s – Tartakover / Coe / Ehud / Hon + So
Igarashi takenobu’s alphabet art
a montage of Mickiewicz’ poems – dedicated to Walesa, jeans-wearing chairman
screening of the 15th SDA Awards
Inoue yuichi, a Japanese calligrapher up-to-date symbol mark competition for Tsukuba EXPO ’85
sign system for Buenos Aires Municipal Hospitals – Shakespear Brothers
designer’s self-portrait
Japan Graphic Designers Association news

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Kazumasa Nagai
Kazumasa Nagai was born in 1929 in Osaka. He left the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1951 and co-founded the Nippon Design Center in 1960. Nagai achieved notable recognition by winning first place in the design competitions for the official symbols of the Sapporo Winter Olympic Games (1966) and EXPO Okinawa (1972). Between 1960 and 1988, he received numerous prestigious awards, including the JAAC Award, Asahi Advertising Award, Mainichi Advertising Award, Yamana Award, and multiple accolades from the Tokyo ADC Show. Explore related designers including Ikko Tanaka and Yusaku Kamekura. See also Japanese Modernism, Japanese graphic design history, 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 83, 1981. Cover design by Kazumasa Nagai
Graphic Design 83, 1981. Cover design by Kazumasa Nagai
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