Content includes:
Marsaru Katsumi, Tokyo: Young Japanese Designers
Sterling McInlhany, New York: Seymour Chwast
Dr. Hans A. Halbey, Offenbach a/m: Winter + Bischoff
Warja Honegger-Lavater, Zürich: Warja Honegger-Lavater
Charles Rosner, London: Air India
Dr. Margot Seindenberg, Zürich: Artists’ Christmas and New Year’s Cards
Dr. W. Franke, Herrching: Microcormic Structures
Dr. W. Franke, Herrching: Varia
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Movements
Kinetic art refers to art the depends on movement for its desired effect and is closely related to op art. Upon scanning a few of the inner inserts from the Kinetics exhibition catalogue from the Hayward Gallery, London, 1970, I came across these five small manifestos on kinetic art.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Ryuichi Yamashiro (山城隆) was a Japanese graphic designer and artist, born in Osaka in 1920. He belonged to the same generation of pioneering Japanese designers as Kohei Sugiura, Kiyoshi Awazu, Yoshio Hayakawa, Yūsaku Kamekura, Kazumasa Nagai, and Ikko Tanaka.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Kohei Sugiura’s work spans an impressive range of mediums, including record jackets, publication covers, posters, exhibition catalogues, and stamps. He perfectly merged functionality and data visualisation with aesthetics. Drawing on his background in architecture, Sugiura applied a systematic, programmatic methodology to graphic design, similar to the approach of Swiss designer Karl Gerstner.
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