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Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Editorial Director: Noboru Sakamoto
Publisher: Shigeo Ogawa
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake
Printers: Nishiki Printing Co., Ltd.
Printers: Mitsumura Printing Co., Ltd.
Printers: Dainippon Printing Co., Ltd.
Cover Design: Henry Steiner
Cover Photo: Ken Haas

Contents include:
Henry Steiner / Hong Kong by Takenobu Igarashi
Ruedi Rüegg’s Posters for Tonhalle-Gesellschaft by Shigeru Watano
Photographer: Bruce Osborn by Rod Dyer, John Van Hamersveld, Shuzo Nagata, Kiichiro Toda
The Finely Ordered Mind of David Barnett by Charles Goslin
Art Direction of Popular Photography by Shinichiro Tora
Katsumi Asaba’s Posters for Suntory by Shinichi Segi
Art Director, Jerry Demony
The Works of Hideyuki Miyaki by Masato Takahashi
Package Graphics in Japan by Charles Biondo, Takeo Yao
The Rolling Signs in Houston by Marc Treib
Etsushi Kiyohara Graphic Work by Kenji Itoh
Evolution of Fashion 1835-1895 by Midori Imatake
The Ninth Biennale of Graphic Design Brno 1980

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Idea 162, 1980-9. Cover design by Henry Steiner
Idea 162, 1980-9. Cover design by Henry Steiner
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Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

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The typographic designs produced for the National Theatre by Ken Briggs are not only iconic and depict the Swiss typographic style of the time, but remain a key example of the creation of a cohesive brand style.

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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
In the ambitious new monograph Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume shines a light on the complete arc of the exceptionally rich and varied career of Rudolph de Harak, showcasing his vibrant, graphic, formally brilliant work, which blazed a colourful trail through the middle decades of the twentieth century.