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Takenobu Igarashi - Graphic Designer - Japan

Idea 130, 1975-5

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Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Assistant Editor: Tadashi Hamada
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office and Midori Imatake
Cover Design: Takenobu Igarashi

Contents include:
Fujita Design, Inc. – They know what they are doing and why.
Olle Eksell
Graphicsgroup
AIGA / color show
Art-works of the Automatics dolls by Erika Billeter
Photographer, Sam Haskins
Rose Farber and her works
Takenobu Igarashi / graphic design
A super-picture book by Jörg Müller
Walls designed by Betty Wells Robert L. Leslie
Five designers on the West Coast by Tom & Teresa Woodward, Harry Murphy, Marty Gunsaullus and Dick Sakahara
Howard Goldstein
Elements of Idea “Animals as Design Motif” by Shigeo Fukuda
’74 Mainichi Design Award

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  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Takenobu Igarashi
  • Year: 1975
  • Client/Publisher: Seibundo Shinkosha Publishing Co
Takenobu Igarashi was born in 1944 in Tokyo and is best known for his typographic work as both a sculptor and designer. 

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Idea 130, 1975-5. Cover design by Takenobu Igarashi
Idea 130, 1975-5. Cover design by Takenobu Igarashi

Idea 130, 1975-5

 

Idea 130, 1975-5

Takenobu Igarashi was born in 1944 in Tokyo and is best known for his typographic work as both a sculptor and designer. 
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