Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Assistant Editor: Tadashi Hamada
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office and Midori Imatake
Cover Design: Cato, Hibberd, Hawksby Design Pty Ltd.
Contents include:
Cato, Hibberd, Hawksby Design Pty Ltd.
Packaging design in contemporary Japan by Suntory Limited / Shiseido Co. / Kao Soap Co. / Ajinomoto Co. / Takeo Yao / Kenji Hanamura / Isao Iwasaki / Katsu Kimura / Shigeru Akizuki / Takashi Kanome / Keiko Hirohashi
Murray Tinkelman
Design forum / graphics ’74
Armando Paez Torres’ “Cook Correction” [sic]
The Art Directors Club of Toronto 1973 by Alan Fletcher
The One Show
New “Egyptian” Typefaces by Yasburo Kuwayama
Koichi Nakai one man show by Shin’ichi Segi
Elements of Idea “Faces” by Shigeo Fukuda
Walter Allner in Tokyo
Animaghi: A Set of Posters and 1 Book for External Use
Poster USA / 74
Design Archive Feature, Illustration, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
A while back, I bought a set of around 14 French travel guides produced by Shell that came in a leather pouch, each bearing the signature ‘D. Hamot.’ Determining the designer's full name proved to be a challenge. Their aesthetic could reflect the shifting design trends of the late 1960s.
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Designer Profiles, Members Only Content
Karl Oskar Blase was born in 1925 in Cologne, Germany. He was a prolific painter, designer, sculptor and exhibition curator. His work included magazine covers, for publications such as Form and Gebrauchsgraphik, stamp designs for the German Postal Service and film posters for companies such as Atlas Films.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design
40 examples of Czech typography from Typografia Vol. 18 (1907). Czech commercial printing at the crossroads of Art Nouveau and early modernism, with work by Otokar Císař, Method Kaláb, and Mořic Novotný.
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