Transition of Modern Typography – Europe & America 1950s – ’60s, 1996

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Tanaka Ikko (Supervisor), Shūtarō Mukai (Supervisor), Kiyoshi Kanai (Editor), Chiharu Fujiwara (Editor), Katsuhiro Kinoshita (Designer)

Addition of chronological materials to the exhibited works of “1950s Swiss International Typography” and “American Typography 1950s-’60s” held to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the opening of Ginza Graphic Gallery.

Content includes:
The Flow of Modern Typography Europe 1950s-’60s
Prehistory (1910s-’40s): Works
The era of modern typography experiments and systematization: Shutaro Mukai
Establishing Swiss style: Catherine Buehler
Typography and poster: Josef Müller-Brockmann
’50s, ’60s International Typography: Peter Brattinga
The Flow of Modern Typography America 1950s-’60s
The era of American typography: Ikko Tanaka
Show Magazine Adventure: Henry Wolf
History of change: Stephen Heller
American typography in the 1950s and 1960s: Lou Dorfsman
Flow of modern typography Europe / America 1910s-’60s: Supervised by Shutaro Mukai

Planning and production: Ginza Graphic Gallery
Supervision: Ikko Tanaka, Shutaro Mukai
Edited by: Atsushi Kanai, Chiharu Fujiwara
Book design: Katsuhiro Kinoshita
Publisher publisher: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd./DNP

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Transition of Modern Typography - Europe & America 1950s - '60s, 1996
Transition of Modern Typography – Europe & America 1950s – ’60s, 1996

 

Transition of Modern Typography - Europe & America 1950s - '60s, 1996
Transition of Modern Typography – Europe & America 1950s – ’60s, 1996

 

Transition of Modern Typography - Europe & America 1950s - '60s, 1996
Transition of Modern Typography – Europe & America 1950s – ’60s, 1996

 

Transition of Modern Typography - Europe & America 1950s - '60s, 1996
Transition of Modern Typography – Europe & America 1950s – ’60s, 1996

 

Transition of Modern Typography - Europe & America 1950s - '60s, 1996
Transition of Modern Typography – Europe & America 1950s – ’60s, 1996
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