Mitsuo Katsui

Idea 242, 1994

Content includes:
The World Masters 22: Mitsuo Katsui Ikko Narahara
Simplicity and Serenity: A Rising Minneapolis Designer, Bill Thorburn Keizo Matsui
“On Connait La Musique” (We know music)
Tadanori Yokoo & Mark Kostabi Collaboration Tsuyoshi Kanazawa
“Eight Graphic Designers from Hong Kong” Exhibition Ikko Tanaka
Painting an Imaginative World, Etienne Delessert
International Design Congress, Glasgow 1993, Posters for “Design Renaissance” Shigeo Fukuda
The Lahti X Poster Biennial Ulla Aartomaa
Illusionary Metamorphoses, Mihail Chemiakin Koichiro Inagaki
Design Work by Contemporary Production Masayuki Kawakatsu
Wide-ranging Style and Technique, James G. Thorpe Joseph P. Ansell
Seeking Immortality in Beauty, Keiko Hirano
Berlin Design Office Design pur Shigeru Watano / Yachiyo Matsuzaki
The 6th International Design Festival, Osaka
Russian Avant-garde Photography by Alexander Rodtchenko
Package Design by Taku Sato
The Contemporary Art Scene, Poetic Imagery, Lynn Umlauf Shoichiro Higuchi
Book Review, News & Information, Exhibitions, Addresses of Contributors

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Mitsuo Katsui
Katsui Mitsuo was born in Tokyo in 1931 and graduated from Tokyo Education University in 1955. In 1956, he joined Ajinomoto Co., Ltd., but began working as a freelance designer in 1961. Throughout his career, he received numerous awards, including the JAAC Award in 1958, the Mainichi Industrial Design Award in 1965, and the Tokyo ADC Membership Prize in 1972. Explore related designers including Kazumasa Nagai and Ikko Tanaka. See also Japanese Modernism and 1970s 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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