Special Feature: Designers’ Commitment to the OLYMPIAD –Look at the transitions made in this century’s Olympic posters world and the dynamism of the times. Planning and Arrangement: IDEA Editorial Staff, Supervision: Ruki Matsumoto
Ralph Schraivogel –Design as an Interface between Chaos and Order Text: Catherine Burer, Cooperation: Masami Kikuchi
Helsinki International Poster Biennial ’97 Text: Keizo Matsui
Bruno Monguzzi Text: Gene Federico
Shinro Ohtake –Exhibition Remixes Text: Shinro Ohtake
Me Company –“Laforet Grand Bazar,” First appearance on the Japanese advertising design scene. Text: Shu Nagashima
“Street Design File” Text: Kyoichi Tsuzuki
IDEA TALKS vol. 2: with Toshio Iwai & Noriyuki Tanaka
A Comparative challenge towards the Automobile industry by TCA Text: Yoshinao Fujimura
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Poster Design
Scanned posters by the great Michele Spera. Many use a strong use of geometric form, often paired with sans-serif typefaces like Helvetica. Their simplification of form and use of colour create timeliness, recognisable posters that would have stood out alongside the posters of the 1970s which tended to have a heavy use of photography.
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Book Reviews & Press Releases, Corporate Identity & Branding
I have always loved the design work created for Olivetti. The colourful midcentury designs by Italian designer Giovanni Pintori, the minimal typographic poster by Swiss designer Walter Ballmer and my personal favourite the 1959 poster for Olivetti designed by Herbert Bayer. I recently found out Triest Verlag released a new book, Visual identity and branding at Olivetti which contains further work by Xanti Schawinsky, Renato Zveteremich, Ettore Sottsass, Hans von Klier, Egidio Bonfante and Walter Ballmer.
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I have long been a fan of Counter-Print, as a student, I would order their newsprint publications, peruse their Flickr albums and now, over a decade later I still buy their latest releases and their site provides our staff with great giftse throughout the year. I interviewed one of the founders, Jon Dowling to find out more about setting up Counter-Print, their favourite books and which publishers inspire them.
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