Special Feature: Visual Impacts and Social Tensions Planning and Arrangement: IDEA Editorial Staff, Special Thanks: Ruki Matsumoto Collection, Batsu Art Gallery
The Nazi propaganda activities and its social background Hideyuki Yamamoto
Impact is created from elements such as graphism, ideas, the times, and mentalities Makoto Saito
Futuristic impact is hidden in ordinary life Noriyuki Tanaka
An Alternative Situation in an Age of Spanking Unconsciousness Hiroyuki Aihara
The 5th International Biennal of Poster in Mexico Text: German Montalvo
Johnson & Wolverton –The design firm starting the main stream with street taste
groovisions –The Alchemy of Design That Revives Past Images
Why Not? –A Special Book Review “Why Not?” covers Why Not Associates’ trace of a decade and shows the site of the 1990s’ creative scene
News & Information, Exhibitions and Book Reviews, Addresses of Contributors
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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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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design
60 examples of Czech typography from Typografia Vol. 22 (1911). Czech commercial printing at the crossroads of Art Nouveau and early modernism, with work by Methoděj Kaláb, Alois Chvála, V. H. Brunner and many more.
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Design Archive Feature, Advertising Design, Members Only Content
Omnibus was Published by the journalism working group of the Technical University of Braunschweig. A square publication measuring 290mm. The publication included features on politics, arts and culture. With advertisements carefully selected to be in keeping with the visual aesthetic. Content also included exhibition information and a fine example of concrete poetry, among artists such as Schröder-Sonnenstern and Sine Hansen.
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