
Special Feature: Sex (Final Issue)
Content:
DIGGING DESIGN
・Architecture: On the Term “Criticism” / Iyuki Honda
・Product: Understanding Industrial Products Through Groundless Intuition / Hiroshi Kashiwagi
・Photography: The Shadow of Bourdin—An Essay on Guy Bourdin (Part 2) / Yu Nakamura
・Moving Image: Visual Culture—America / Hiroshi Tomura
・Advertising: “Dialogue” with the “Landscape” / Mitsuhiro Hiiragi
・Graphic: Notes on a Stay in California / Takenobu Igarashi
・Typography: Drifting Typefaces—Random Thoughts on Recent Display Types / Kei Mori
Special Feature: Sex
SEX PRESENTATION / Takashi Okubo, Masamichi Furuya
Fragments of Wind, Light, and Darkness—Or, For the Eternity of Age 15 / Takashi Okubo
Flappers and Glamour—Fashion Around 1930 / Hiroshi Unno
SEX in Advertising Expression / Yusuke Kaji
Roundtable Discussion: Design and Sex / Kazumasa Nagai + Tadanori Yokoo + Eiko Ishioka + Katsumi Asaba
Illustration / Harumi Yamaguchi, Teruhiko Yumura
The Camera Is a Sex Toy / Nobuyoshi Araki
Women Soaring Through Comics / Kosei Ono
Architecture as Metaphor / Tomoharu Makabe
Mass-Market Eroticism in Industrial Products / Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Urban Poetry Transformed into Signs Makoto Wada’s “Screen Graffiti” Exhibition
From the “Contemporary Form: Weaving” Exhibition — Fiber Art: Alpha and Omega / Kuniko Kato
Series 14: History of Modern Design / Takahiko Okada

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The clear, rational, and functional design of 1960s industrial design brochures.
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