Idea is a Japanese design magazine that has been published since 1953, covering typography, visual identity, and contemporary graphics.
Idea is a Japanese graphic design magazine published in Tokyo since 1953, making it one of the longest-running design publications in the world. It has consistently provided comprehensive international coverage of graphic design, typography, and visual communication. The archive holds the full run of Idea’s publication, documenting the magazine’s unique position as a bridge between Japanese and international design culture. Individual issues focus on significant designers, movements, and themes, including poster design, type history, and editorial design. See also Japanese Modernism and Japanese graphic design history.
Idea was founded with Hiroshi Ohchi as its first art director. It documented the work of leading designers including Yusaku Kamekura, Ikko Tanaka, and Josef Müller-Brockmann. See also Japanese graphic design history and Magazines in the archive.
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
Members Only Content, Designer Profiles
A 1939 article on American designer, Walter Frank Bomar, published in The Inland Printer, Vol 104, No. 03, 1939.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Ephemera, Illustration, Members Only Content
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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Members Only Content, Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles
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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Members Only Content, Designer Profiles, Studios & Collectives
A 1903-1904 article on Die Steglitzer Werkstatt, originally in German, published in Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Vol. XIII, October 1903–March 1904.
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Regional Histories, Ephemera, Illustration, Members Only Content
A collected visual record of the Kanto, Chubu and Tohoku Lottery tickets.
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Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Movements
April Greiman is known for her experimental approach to graphic design, her role in the development of Californian New Wave and being one of the first designers to fully embrace the computer in her work.
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