Special Feature: Photo Direction of Impact Planning and Arrangement: IDEA Editorial Staff
Mark Farrow –Post Chaotic but Pre Chaotic Design Text: Liz Farrelly
David Sandlin –The Fine Artist Ridiculing Modern Society Text: Takahisa Iwayoshi
Cornel Windlin –An Attitude Detached Without Disavowing the Times Text: Martin Heller
Elements – Re･Elements Part 10 Keiji Ito → Neo Art Group
IDEA Talks vol. 3: with Me Company Interview: IDEA Editorial Staff
Yusaku Kamekura Passed Away
Special Feature: ’97 Graduation Works of Graphic Design Students Masuteru Aoba
Visual Design Art of 81st Nika Exhibition
The 57th Annual Exhibition of Bijutsu Bunka Art Association
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Following on from my previous article on publicity design from 1957-58, an additional annual from 1959-60 showcases another year of great advertising and design from Italy.
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Designer Profiles, Members Only Content
Karl Oskar Blase was born in 1925 in Cologne, Germany. He was a prolific painter, designer, sculptor and exhibition curator. His work included magazine covers, for publications such as Form and Gebrauchsgraphik, stamp designs for the German Postal Service and film posters for companies such as Atlas Films.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Movements
A 1,500 essay on the transformative era of graphic design from the 1970s to the 1990s. Moving beyond the constraints of modernism, designers like Wolfgang Weingart and April Greiman redefined visual communication through bold experimentation with type, colour, and early computer graphics. This essay highlights how postmodernism and New Wave design introduced complexity, individuality, and digital innovation in to graphic design.
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