Cover Illustration: Tom Curry
Editor in chief: Fumio Sudoh
Editorial Director: Hisao Matsumoto
Publisher: Shigeo Ogawa
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake
Content includes:
[Special Feature] Works of Seymour Chwast from “Seymour Chwast, the Left-Handed Designer” by Steven Heller
David Pocknell’s Company Ltd. by David Pocknell
TOKYO in TOKYO “Tokyo: its Shape and Mind” Exhibit to Tour US by Arata Isozaki, Tadanori Yokoo, Shigeo Fukuda, Hiroshi Hara, Eiko Ishioka, Toyoo Ito, Kohei Sugiura, Fumihiko Maki, Kiyoshi Awazu, Tadao Ando, Shiro Kuramata
Swiss Poster Designers Series Exhibition, Burkhard Mangold, Emil Cardinaux by Oskar Bätschmann, Thomas Bolt
Tom Curry: “Stylized Graphic Realism with a Humorous Twist” by Tom Curry
Quality and Control Form Within – Corporate Graphic Design / Kimberly-Clark by Imatak
Anita Kunz and Her Mysterious World by Akiko Hyuga
2nd International Design Festival held in Osaka by Imatake
Book Review “GA, Illustrators 25” by Yoshihisa Ishihara
Ceramic Exhibition: Painting / Ryuichi Yamashiro, Ceramic / Taizo Kuroda by Ikko Tanaka
Exchange of Contemporary French and Japanese Posters Exhibition by Shin’ichi Segi
“City and Art: the Modernism od Osaka and Kobe” held at Hyogo Prefectural Museum Modern Art, Kobe by Haruhiko Fujii
The BAG Exhibition: Carrier Bags from London, Paris, New York, Milan, Tokyo
Parsons Graphic Design in Japan by Yusaku Kamekura, Ikko Tanaka, Kiyoshi Kanai, Janaia Donaldson, Jose Conde, Elissa Ichiyasu, Frances Ullenberg, Susan Hopper, Carol Gillot
Design Archive Feature, Corporate Identity & Branding, Members Only Content
Paul Rand, one of the most acclaimed American designers is known for his iconic corporate identities, playful illustration and commercial art. Paul wrote the preface for Yusaku Kamakura's book, Trademarks of the World, 1958. He states his influence of Japanese art and design, trademarks as a universal language and his struggles with English grammar.
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Illustration, Ephemera, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
A collected visual record of the first eight years of Japan’s Rural Medical Care Promotion Lottery.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Yoshio Hayakawa is one of Japan’s most influential post-war poster designers. His work represents a fusion of traditional Japanese art and European modernism often using soft, poetic brushstrokes and refined colour palettes and capturing the elegance of Japanese aesthetics while integrating the clean lines and bold visual language of Western design.
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