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Cover Design: Gene Hoffman
Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Editorial Director: Kazuchika Sunaga
Publisher: Shigeo Ogawa
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake

Content includes:
Woody Pirtle and His Posters by Kazuhiro Hayase
John Running, Photographer’s Statement by John Running
Special Feature: The 5th NAAC (Nippon Advertising Arts Council) Exhibition by Shinichi Segi, Shin Matsunaga, Michiaki Tamura, Yoshihiro Monjushiro
Science Fiction: Illustration Exhibition by Shinichiro Tora
“Two-in-One Show” in New York: Illustrator Tanabe & Photographer Ohashi by Shinichiro Tora
Society of Illustrators 1984 Hall of Fame Awards and Hamilton King Award by Shinichiro Tora
Victor Levie: Creating Sociopolitic Posters by Shigeru Watano
AGI ’84 Toscana by Takenobu Igarashi
Design New Wave ’84 Japan by Kazumasa Nagai
English Posters with an Arabic Theme by George Sorley Whittet
Poster by Josef Flejšar by Emil Minář, Josef Flejšar
Initials + Decorative Aplphabets: new book by novum press
Gene Hoffman’s Assemblage by Akiko Hyuga
Takenobu Igarashi: Works for the Museum of Modern Art Ruth P. Stevens, Yoshihisa Ishihara
Visual Circus Lesson 5 by Shigeo Fukuda

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Idea 188, 1985-1. Cover design by Gene Hoffman
Idea 188, 1985-1. Cover design by Gene Hoffman
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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.