Content includes:
Design focus
・35th Aspen Conference / Enomoto Ryoichi
・19th SDA Awards Grand Prize Winner NTT / Sakano Nagami
・The Miracle of Genoa: The Future of the Japanese Avant-Garde / Yamaguchi Katsuhiro
・Tahara Keiichi’s “Fin de Siècle” Exhibition / Miyake Riichi
・Landscapes with Letters: Sha-Ken Photography Contest / Otsuji Seiji
・Kitagawa Yoshiko’s Package Exhibition / Aoba Masuteru
・Vivid Light: Two Orthodox Exhibitions / Hayakawa Yoshio
Special feature: Total Scanner System Considerations of digital creativity
What is a total scanner system?
– Color printing and scanners
– Process flow
– Composite
– Tone change
– Gradation
– Rotation, inversion, multi-image
– Multi-cut, transformation
– Brushing
– Mosaic
Future total scanner systems
Japanese peace posters / Awazu Kiyoshi
Art direction by Mizutani Takatsugu / Nagai Kazumasa
Graphic design by Toda Tsutomu / Miyasako Chizuru
Communication design by Gregotti
1st World Poster Triennale Toyama 1985 / Kamijo Takahisa
Ecograda Series ⑪ United States, Australia
Activities of the Japan Graphic Designers Association
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
Last month (March 2022), I spoke to over fifty Graphic Design undergraduates about the archive and my passion for design history, after which the students had full access to items in the collection and participated in discourse amongst their peers and lecturers. As part of their critical studies unit, the students will be producing essays and content related to the impact, history and aesthetics of selected artefacts.
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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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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
A collection of letterpresses German brochures from 1959/1960 designed by Hans Geipel for Süddeutsche Rundfunk (SDR), the South German Radio Network based in Stuttgart.
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