Idea 131, 1975-7

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Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Assistant Editor: Tadashi Hamada
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office and Midori Imatake
Cover Design: Ben Bos, Total Design

Contents include:
Lettering Calligraphy / Alphabets Show by 32 Typographers by Shin’ichiro Tora
Louis Portuesi’s Promotion Pieces for the Reader’s Digest Magazine
Josse Goffin, Belgian Lyricist
The Orthometric Art of Gerald Cross by Myrna Davis
Preuit Holland
Elements of Idea “Pattern & Ground” Relationship by Shigeo Fukuda
Identities in Environment by Midori Imatake
Edward Marson
Stephen Graff Doyle Dane Bernbach
Jerry C. Demoney
Vasarely III, Plastic Arts of the Twentieth Century 
Tom Gilday by Penton Publications
Total Design BV by Shigeru Watano
Leslie A. Segal by Corporate Annual Reports, Inc.
’75 Graduation Works of Graphic Art Students
Graphic Designs from Great Britain

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Idea 131, 1975-7. Cover design by Ben Bos, Total Design
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