Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Assistant Editor: Tadashi Hamada
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake
Content includes:
A unique Japanese-descent designer on the West Coast, Brian Hagiwara by Takenobu Igarashi
Matthew Finch Associates Limited by Midori Imatake
Isao Nishijima by Yoshio Hayakawa
Alan Chan Yau-Kin
Rick Lambert
Heather Cooper by Robert Burns
Roland Topor by Composition by Ad Petersen and Shigeru Watano
“Paul Rand” A Truly American Artist by Yusaku Kamekura
The 11th Society of Publication, Designers Award Exhibition by Shinichiro Tora
Peter Max Exhibition in Tokyo by Akiko Hyuga
O&T Design Studio by Shigeru Watano
Currier & Ives by Shinichi Segi
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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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
A 1936 article on Walter Spiegel, originally in German and English, published in Gebrauchsgraphik, February 1936.
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Design Archive Feature, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Each year, leading Dutch artists were commissioned to design the covers and inner pages of Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn. Including designers included Dick Elffers, Willem Sandberg, Jan van Toorn, Wim Crouwel, and Jurriaan Schrofer. The journal documented important design trends and developments in The Netherlands.
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