Kiyonori Muroga/Tomoko Kondo/Toshiaki Koga
Tokyo 2007
Sewn paperback 122 pages
Illustrated in colour & bl/w
Cover design: Kenya Hara
Book design: sign
Text in Japanese & English
Price: € 29.50
This publication is a reproduction of the articles originally published in Idea Magazine No. 306 (September, 2004).
Contens:"Invention of White" HAPTIC Exhibition / Matsuya Ginza Renewal project / Signage for Umeda Hospital / Signage for Katta Hospital / Nagano Winter Olympic Games Program / Book Design / Takeo VI Communication Tools
"On White" by Kenya Hara
"Encounters with Everyday Lives"
EXPO 2005 AICHI Promotion / Works across Japan / Final entry draft for the Beijing Olympics symbol mark / RE-DESIGN Exhibition / MUJI
"Encounters with Japan" by Kenya Hara
A Long Interview with Kenya Hara
Designers who influenced Kenya Hara
Comments on Kenya Hara from 8 standpoints
Shinichi Nakazawa / Ross Lovegrove / Kazuko Koike / Naoto Fukasawa / Makoto Saito / Shutaro Mukai / Munenori Harada / Kenmei Nagaoka
Kiyonori Muroga (Editor)
Tokyo Reprint 2008 (originally pub. 2005)
Sewn magazine 286 pages
Illustrated in colour & b/w on various paper-stocks
Art direction & cover design: Yoshihisa Shirai
Design: Shirai Design Studio
Text in Japanese only!
Price: € 46.00
The revised and enlarged edition of Idea No.310: Typography in Japan 1995-2005.
Typography works of 66 Japanese designers to observe the renovative changes over the turn of the century.
Designers: Shoichi Akazaki, Shin Akiyama, Shintaro Ajioka, Taii Ashizawa, Yukio Azuma, Tatsuya Ariyama, Kazuo Ito, Yukihiro Unno, Tsuyoshi Endo, Tetsuya Ota, Shuichi Ogata, Kaoru Kasai, Mitsuo Katsui, Nobuyoshi Kikuchi, Yuji Kimura, Junichi Kusaka, Kudo Tsuyokatsu, Craft Ebbing & Co., Yoshinobu Kuwahata, Hitoshi Koizumi, Kazuya Kondo, Akira Saito (Veia), Eiji Sakagawa, Koichi Sakano, Jun Sato, Naoki Sato, Mayumi Sawachi, Masami Shimizu, Yoshihisa Shirai, Kohei Sugiura, George Sugishita, Seiichi Suzuki, Hitoshi Suzuki, Shin Sobue , Fumio Tachibana, Tztom Toda, Nobuo Nakagaki, Hideki Nakajima, Masayoshi Nakajyo, Yasuhito Nagahara, Gino Nakayama, Minoru Niijima, Hiroshi Nishino, Kazunari Hattori, Kenya Hara, Reiko Harajo, HeiQuiti Harata, FiSH design, Mitsuo Fukawa, Yasushi Fujimoto (CAP), Fragment, HOLON, Yukimasa Matzda, Shunichi Mamura, Ken Miki, Gow Michiyoshi, Milky Isobe, Hirokazu Mukai, Junichi Munetoshi, Reiko Mochizuki, Daishiro Mori, Kijyuro Yahagi, Nobuhiro Yamaguchi, Hideharu Yamada
Idea Magazine
Tokyo 2008
Sewn paperback 126 pages
Printed in black & blue
Japanese text only!
Price: € 28.50
A detailed analysis of Japanese typesetting in relation to it's elements, attributions and structure.
Japanese text only!
Morisawa
Tokyo 2007
Paperback 638 pages
Text in Japanese
Price: € 44.50
This large volume includes 1650 typefaces from 18 foundries, with many typesetting examples and detailed technical notes. A must for designers, editors and publishers.
Japanese text only.
Kiyonori Muroga (Editor)
Tokyo 2010
Sewn magazine 200 pages
Illustrated in colour & bl/w on various paper-stocks
Art direction & design: Shirai Design Studio
Cover Format: Helmut Schmid
Text in Japanese & English
Price: € 39.50
[1]Dialogues with Tatsuya Ariyama[TEXT IN JAPANESE]
[2]Critical Mass 80 pages [TEXT IN JAPANESE & ENGLISH]
Compiled by Ian Lynam + Idea magazine
An inquiry into contemporary critical practices in graphic design featuring: Mark Owens, Zak Kyes, Jon Sueda, Brian Roettinger, Daniel Eatock, Scott Ponik, Michael Worthington, Yasmin Khan, Metahaven.
[essay] Subterranean Modernism: A Critical Retrospective by Randy Nakamura + Ian Lynam
[3]On the Uselessness of Design Criticism by Randy Nakamura
[4]Design of Techno on Paper : Japanese Techno Flyers in the 90s





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