Kazumasa Nagai was born in 1929 in Osaka. He left the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1951 and co-founded the Nippon Design Center in 1960. Nagai achieved notable recognition by winning first place in the design competitions for the official symbols of the Sapporo Winter Olympic Games (1966) and EXPO Okinawa (1972). Between 1960 and 1988, he received numerous prestigious awards, including the JAAC Award, Asahi Advertising Award, Mainichi Advertising Award, Yamana Award, and multiple accolades from the Tokyo ADC Show.
Kazumasa Nagai was born in 1929 in Osaka. He left the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1951 and co-founded the Nippon Design Center in 1960. Nagai achieved notable recognition by winning first place in the design competitions for the official symbols of the Sapporo Winter Olympic Games (1966) and EXPO Okinawa (1972). Between 1960 and 1988, he received numerous prestigious awards, including the JAAC Award, Asahi Advertising Award, Mainichi Advertising Award, Yamana Award, and multiple accolades from the Tokyo ADC Show.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Paul Schuitema emerged as one of the Dutch pioneers of new typography. This article features a selection of the cover designs and a few inner spreads from my collected issues of De 8 en Opbouw.
He designed stamps from around 1955 and in the book Karl Oskar Blase, Briefmarken-Design, Verlag für Philatelistische Literatur, 1981, he was described as one of the most influential stamp designers in Germany.
Gregory Vines' design and process behind the Typographische Monatsblätter 1978 covers. From the initial inspiration drawn from Bellinzona's gate to the process of film montage, resulting in six stunning cover masterpieces.
Many designers played an important role in IBM's graphic identity and implementation including Arthur Boden, Clarence Lee, Charles Keddie and Mary Beresford.