Content includes:
Design focus
・Official mark and mascot of the ’88 Seoul Olympics / Cho Young-je
・Japanese Design: Traditional and Contemporary Exhibition, Moscow / Tanaka Ikko
・Great Cover Contest / Charles M. Helmken
・Trends in signs as seen in the 18th SDA Awards / Sakano Nagami
・Re-experiencing the ’60s: My view of ’60s illustrations / Wakao Shinichiro
・Tokyo Gallery and Sugiura Kohei
・New protagonists in the alcoholic beverage survival race / Hiroshi Sano
Restaurant Graphics Tokyo / Hiroshi Kojitani
’84 JAGDA Peace Poster Exhibition / Yusaku Kamekura
Sun-Ad Japan / Yusuke Kaji, Takehiko Kamei, Mutsuo Takahashi, Takashi Nakahata, Yoshiya Nishimura
11th Brno Biennale / Mitsuo Katsui
Jacek Kawalerowicz / Shinzo Aoki
Design East and West Kiyoshi Awazu/Kazumasa Nagai
Record jackets from minor labels
Icograda Series 8 Norway/German Democratic Republic
・Knut Ilan
・Axel Bertram
Activities of the Japan Graphic Designers Association
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design
60 examples of Czech typography from Typografia Vol. 22 (1911). Czech commercial printing at the crossroads of Art Nouveau and early modernism, with work by Methoděj Kaláb, Alois Chvála, V. H. Brunner and many more.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Movements
A 1,500 essay on the transformative era of graphic design from the 1970s to the 1990s. Moving beyond the constraints of modernism, designers like Wolfgang Weingart and April Greiman redefined visual communication through bold experimentation with type, colour, and early computer graphics. This essay highlights how postmodernism and New Wave design introduced complexity, individuality, and digital innovation in to graphic design.
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This book shows, for the first time, all of Hans Hillmann’s film posters. Unpublished sketches and drafts from his estate along with commentary from conversations and interviews provide an insight into the creative process of the award-winning designer.
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