Eiko Ishioka (1938–2012) was a Japanese art director, graphic designer, and costume designer. She studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and worked in advertising before achieving international recognition for her art direction for the Parco department store in the 1970s. She later moved into film and theatre, designing costumes for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Academy Award, 1993), The Cell, and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She was the first Japanese woman to win an Art Directors Club Gold Medal.
Explore related designers including Ikko Tanaka and Kazumasa Nagai. See also Japanese Modernism and 1970s graphic design history.
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A 1939 article on American designer, Walter Frank Bomar, published in The Inland Printer, Vol 104, No. 03, 1939.
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Beyond his books, Dick Bruna's vivid colour and simplified forms found their way onto posters, packaging, murals and stamps, many of which feature in my growing collection.
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An article on Valentin Zietara , originally in German, published in Gebrauchsgraphik, 10, 1930, written by H K Frenzel translated by E. T. Scheffauer
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