Cover Design: George Hardie
Photography: James Stewart
Table of Contents Design: Hiromi Nakata
Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Editorial Director: Kazuchika Sunaga
Publisher: Shigeo Ogawa
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake
Content includes:
Kiyoshi Awazu Art Exhibition by Shuntaro Tanigawa, Shigeo Fukuda, Setsu Asakura, Shigesato Itoi, Yosuke Yamashita, Katsuhiko Hibino
Special Feature: NTA Studios by Yoshiro Nakamura
Imagination for Champion Papers by James Miho by James Miho
Jonsson & Essen Creative Graphic Design Group AB by Greger Stenstrom
A Century of American Illustration (1880-1980) by Shinichiro Tora
Lecture of Pieter Brattinga: The Interrelation of Typography and Illustrations in Books and Magazines by Pieter Brattinga, Shigeru Watano
Works of Kaoru Kasai by Susumu Sakane
New Wave in SF Art by Akiko Hyuga
Sketching with Barbara Carr in New York, Rio, Hong Kong & Japan by Barbara Carr, Midori Imatake
Winners Announced for Visual Circus ’85 by Shigeo Fukuda
9/10th International Poster Biennale Warsaw 1984 by Zazislaw Szubert
Michael Corris, Large Scale Typographic Design by Michael Corris
Moscow International Peace Poster Concours ’84 by Shigeo Fukuda
David Tartakover’s “Produce of Israel”
List of the names and addresses of designers appearing in thie issue
Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Ryuichi Yamashiro (山城隆) was a Japanese graphic designer and artist, born in Osaka in 1920. He belonged to the same generation of pioneering Japanese designers as Kohei Sugiura, Kiyoshi Awazu, Yoshio Hayakawa, Yūsaku Kamekura, Kazumasa Nagai, and Ikko Tanaka.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design
60 examples of Czech typography from Typografia Vol. 20 (1909). Czech commercial printing at the crossroads of Art Nouveau and early modernism, with work by Methoděj Kaláb, Otokar Císař, Karel Dyrink and many more.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Poster Design
Blase’s long-term clients were Staatstheater Kassel (Kassel State Theater) and Atlas Films. Karl Oskar Blase produced countless posters for these two organisations. It’s not surprising considering Blase designed posters for the Staatstheater for twelve years between 1966 and 1978.
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