IDEA magazine169
1981/11
American Record Jacket Design Now


Cover Illustration: Jan Sawka
©1981 Seibundo Shinkosha
Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Editorial Director: Noboru Sakamoto
Publisher: Shigeo Ogawa
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake
Printers: Nishiki Printing Co., Ltd.
Printers: Mitsumura Printing Co., Ltd.
Table of Contents design: Yukio Kanise


Illustrator Philippe Kaihenn Shigeru Watano
Young Graphic Designers from Slovakia: Pavol Choma, Jozef Dóka junior, Lubomír Longauer, Svetozár Mydlo, Vladislav Rostoka by Jan Rajlich
Special feature: American Record Jacket Design Now / Selected by 15 leading Art Directors in the U.S. by Yoshio Nakamura
Human Figures by Jan Sawka by Shigeo Fukuda
Adrian Loos by Midori Imatake
Twenty Years of Award Winners of the Society of Illustrators Exhibition by Shinichiro Tora
Tetsuo Yayoshi’s Art Direction by Tomoharu Tawara
Shin Matsunaga’s Art Direction
The School of Visual Arts presents “Visual Passages” by Shinichiro Tora
Loughborough College of Art and Design by Jan Rajlich


Jan Sawka
Born in Zabrze, Poland in 1946. He studied at the Wroclaw Polytechnic Institute and Fine Arts Academy. In 1976 he left Poland for Paris, (where his passport was revoked), then settled in New York in 1977. He won prize at several poster biennials which was held in such as Warsaw, Brno, Colorado, Lahti. In 1999 he designed sets, posters and so on for rock band, The Grateful Dead.