Cover Design: Gene Hoffman
©1984 Seibundo Shinkosha
Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Editorial Director: Kazuchika Sunaga
Publisher: Shigeo Ogawa
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake
Printers: Nishiki Printing Co., Ltd.
Printers: Dainippon Printing Co., Ltd.
Printers: Mitsumura Printing Co., Ltd.
Table of Contents design: Yukio Kanise

Woody Pirtle and His Posters by Kazuhiro Hayase
John Running, Photographer’s Statement by John Running
Special Feature: The 5th NAAC (Nippon Advertising Arts Council) Exhibition by Shinichi Segi, Shin Matsunaga, Michiaki Tamura, Yoshihiro Monjushiro
Science Fiction: Illustration Exhibition by Shinichiro Tora
“Two-in-One Show” in New York: Illustrator Tanabe & Photographer Ohashi by Shinichiro Tora
Society of Illustrators 1984 Hall of Fame Awards and Hamilton King Award by Shinichiro Tora
Victor Levie: Creating Sociopolitic Posters by Shigeru Watano
AGI ’84 Toscana by Takenobu Igarashi
Design New Wave ’84 Japan by Kazumasa Nagai
English Posters with an Arabic Theme by George Sorley Whittet
Poster by Josef Flejšar by Emil Minář, Josef Flejšar
Initials + Decorative Aplphabets: new book by novum press
Gene Hoffman’s Assemblage by Akiko Hyuga
Takenobu Igarashi: Works for the Museum of Modern Art Ruth P. Stevens, Yoshihisa Ishihara
Visual Circus Lesson 5 by Shigeo Fukuda

Gene Hoffman
Born in Pennsylvania in 1933. He taught himself design and worked as an art director at the advertising agency untill 1954. After then he moved to Colorado. He is reconciling works of CM to his own creative art. His art pieces are assemblage composed of thrown away bottles, buttons, broken parts of scrapped cars and leather.