Ikko Tanaka

Idea 166, 1981-5

Cover Design: Ikko Tanaka
Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Editorial Director: Noboru Sakamoto
Publisher: Shigeo Ogawa
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake

Content includes:
Special feature: Ikko Tanaka / World of Symbols by Motoo Nakanishi
Pierre Le-Tan by Shigeru Watano
The ballets transformed by the three art of graphic designers by Syuji Fujii
The Original Art by Dills Evans, Shinichiro Tora
Hirokazu Hashimoto and his elaborate illustration by Hideo Mukai
Tadanori Yokoo oneman exhibition by Shigesato Itoi
New York Art Directors Club, “Hall of Fame in 1980” Gene Federico, Otto Storch, Henry Wolf
Billboard Spectaculars by Marc Treib
Seibu Lions design policy by Gan Hosoya, Tadasu Fukano
Group Grapus by Gérard Mermoz
The Corporate design for the Hotel New Carina
Ken Miki’s Creative Idiosyncrasy

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Ikko Tanaka
Ikko Tanaka was born in 1930 in Nara City. He graduated from the Kyoto School of Fine Arts in 1950 and worked for several companies, including the Osaka Economic Newspaper, before co-founding Nippon Design Center, Inc. In 1963, he established his own firm, the Ikko Tanaka Design Office. Tanaka's awards include a silver medal from the Warsaw International Poster Biennial, the Mainichi Design Award, the New York ADC Award, the Tokyo ADC Membership Award, the Mainichi Art Award, and the Japan Cultural Design Grand Prix. Explore related designers including Yusaku Kamekura, Shigeo Fukuda, and Kiyoshi Awazu. See also Japanese Modernism, Japanese graphic design history, and 1960s graphic design history.
IDEA (Japan)
Idea is a Japanese design magazine that has been published since 1953, covering typography, visual identity, and contemporary graphics.

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Idea 166, 1981-5. Cover design by Ikko Tanaka
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