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Yusaku Kamekura - Graphic Designer - Japan

Designer: Yusaku Kamekura

Yusaku Kamekura, born in 1915, graduated from the Institute of New Architecture and Industrial Arts. In 1960, he helped establish Nippon Design Center Inc. and served as its managing director. The following year, in 1961, he received a grand prize from the Ministry of Education. In 1962, he transitioned to working as a freelance designer.

Articles Featuring the Work of Yusaku Kamekura

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Poster for Nikon 1954, designed by Yusaku Kamekura. Scanned from Creation No.21, Yusaku Kamekura Issue, 1998
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Yusaku Kamekura and his Design for Nikon

Nikon commissioned Yusaku Kamekura to design numerous posters, packaging designs and advertisements for Nikon. He used abstract forms, an impactful use of colours, along with his skilful reduction of messaging.
Toho Paper Company logo designed by Yusaku Kamekura
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Yusaku Kamekura and his Mark Design by Masataka Ogawa

The background of Kamekura's mark designs is his boldness in eliminating all the waste, combining simplification derived from Japanese traditional family crests and Western intellectual mechanics of formation with a sharp modern sense of composition.

Artefacts Featuring the Work of Yusaku Kamekura

Design (Japan), 38, September 1962. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Design (Japan), 38, September 1962

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1962
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Poster for Nikon 1954, designed by Yusaku Kamekura. Scanned from Creation No.21, Yusaku Kamekura Issue, 1998
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Yusaku Kamekura and his Design for Nikon

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Toho Paper Company logo designed by Yusaku Kamekura
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Yusaku Kamekura and his Mark Design by Masataka Ogawa

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Idea 003, 1953. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Idea 003, 1953

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1953
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Design (Japan), 13, 1960 Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Design (Japan), 13, 1960

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1960
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Industrial Art News - Vol. 23, No. 11, November 1955. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Industrial Art News – Vol. 23, No. 11, November 1955

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1955
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Atelier No. 373, 1958 - Key to Modern Art Production For Painters, Sculptors, Designers and Educators. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Atelier No. 373, 1958 – Key to Modern Art Production: For Painters, Sculptors, Designers and Educators

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1958
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Yusaku Kamekura - His Works, Bijutsu Shuppan, 1971
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Yusaku Kamekura: His Works, Bijutsu Shuppan, 1971

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1971
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Design (Japan), 7, 1960. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Design (Japan), 7, 1960

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1960
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International Design-Festival, Osaka 1985. Designed by Yusaku Kamekura
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International Design Festival, Osaka 1985

  • Format: Exhibition Catalogue
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1985
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Creation No.21, Yusaku Kamekura Issue, 1998
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Creation No.21, Yusaku Kamekura Issue, 1998

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1998
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Trademarks of the World, Yusaku Kamekura, 1958
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Trademarks of the World, Yusaku Kamekura, 1958

  • Format: Book
  • Year: 1958
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Industrial Art News – Vol. 40, No. 1, 1972. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Industrial Art News – Vol. 40, No. 1, 1972

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1972
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Industrial Art News - Vol. 25, No. 1, January 1957. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Industrial Art News – Vol. 25, No. 1, January 1957

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1957
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Graphis Annual 1960|61. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Graphis Annual 1960|61

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1960
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Ginza Graphic Gallery 03, Yusaku Kamekura
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Yusaku Kamekura (World Graphic Design 3), 1993

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1993
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Graphic Design 5, 1961. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Graphic Design 05, 1961

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1961
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Idea October 1965 Extra issue - 15th Nisshinmi Exhibition Special Issue. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Idea October 1965 Extra issue – 15th Nisshinmi Exhibition Special Issue

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1965
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Idea 25, 1957. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura.
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Idea 025, 1957

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1957
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Idea 81, 1967. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Idea 081, 1967

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1967
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Graphis 46, 1953. Cover design by Yasaku Kamekura
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Graphis 46, 1953

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1953
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Idea 187, 1984-11. Cover design by Yusaku Kamekura
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Idea 187, 1984-11

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1984
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Tokyo Olympics 1964 Matchboxes. Designed by Yusaku Kamekura
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Tokyo Olympics 1964 Matchboxes

  • Format: Matchboxes
  • Designer/s: Yusaku Kamekura
  • Year: 1964
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Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn Kerstnummer 1952, 1952 Jan Bons
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Sketches by Jan Slothouber and William Graatsmas for the Cubic Children’s Stamps of 1970. Scanned from nederlandse postzegels 1970, Staatsbedrij der PTT, 1970
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Jan Slothouber and William Graatsma’s Cubic Children’s Stamps of 1970.

The stamps for the 1970 editions were designed by Jan Slothouber and William Graatsma in collaboration with the Centre for Cubic Constructions (CCC) in Heerlen.  Every stamp displays a different corner point of the same block, highlighting eight distinct corner points, with four chosen for their unique identities.