idea magazine
Special Feature: Privately Public, Publicly Private
Haruka Sugita, Tokyo Pistol, So Hashizume, Yuma Harada (UMA / design farm), Hiroshi Iguchi, Koh Chihara, Akira Sasaki, Kenjiro Harigai (ANSWR), Shun Kawakami (artless), Yoshio Nakano, Yuri Suyama, SKKY / iTohen, Semitransparent Design, Midori Kawano, GraphersRock, Yoshimitsu Sakoda (1057)
Cover Artwork: Daijiro Ohara
Special Feature: Post Pop Graphics
TAKORA Kimiyoshi Futori, Daijiro Ohara, Kazunori Sadahiro, Yuichi Yokoyama, Isamu Gakiya, Tomoe, JUN OSON, Shu-Thang Grafix, Hideki Tanaka, Yuko Shimizu, Yusuke Nakamura, POST POPPERS [Lie Fujishiro, lilicalolica, odayaka, umelabo], shk, Ayano, suzuko, MYNA, Maho Nishimura / Interview Tadanori Yokoo "Y-ji Machi" / Interview Steven Heller "Design into Words" / [Bound-in zine] Akatoki inaugural preparatory issue Edit & design : Yasuyo Iwata, Akari Ohno, Kaname Kawamoto, Yasuo Totsuka
Special Feature: formgiving onethingmakesanotherandanother&...
A Speculative Essay on Process - as seen through the lens of the Floating World (Ukiyo-e) featuring the work of tomato:underworld, other collaborative work, an approach to typographics
by John Warwicker
Assisted by Toru Yoshikawa
Bob Gill - Forming illustration and design solutions
Japanese Techno-zines & FreePapers Text by kentarou Takaoka & Barbora
Bound-in Poster - Fumio Tachibana x NIKE SPORTSWEAR
Special Feature: Designs for Manga, Anime & Light Novels (Vol.2)
The sequel to Idea issue No.334.
Graphic designs for Otaku culture have become more highly developed over the past decade, evolving from mere images of printed characters to more integrated graphic packages full of detail and rich interpretations of the titles.
In this special issue, Idea explores the world of design for Otaku culture, which are not confined to the rules of Western design with their composite gestalts.
Special Feature Max Huber: Design beyond Borders
Concrete Art, Geometrical Forms, Typography / Design and Society in The Age of Reproduction / Constructive Photography and Superimposed Types and Colors / The Dynamism of Three-dimentional Layou / Toward The Production of The Space
Comments on Max Huber
Antonio Boggeri, Gianpiero Bosoni, Bruno Munari, Massimo Vignelli,
Heinz Waibl, Roberto Leydi, Toshihiro Katayama, Bruno Monguzzi
IDEA NO. 334 : Designs for Manga, Anime & Light Novels (Vol.1)
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Special Feature: Designs for Manga, Anime & Light Novels (Vol.1)
Graphic designs for Otaku culture have become more highly developed over the past decade, evolving from mere images of printed characters to more integrated graphic packages full of detail and rich interpretations of the titles.
In this special issue, Idea explores the world of design for Otaku culture, which are not confined to the rules of Western design with their composite gestalts.
Ruder
typography
Ruder
philosophy
Planning, concept and design by Helmut Schmid.
The subject of IDEA No. 333 is the Swiss virtuoso, educator and typography philosopher Emil Ruder (1914 - 1970), who worked from Basel from the 1940s till the 1960s.
Special Feature: How does graphic design CHANGE?
Mike Meiré, Alexandre Bettler, Alex Rich & Åbäke, Alberto Folch Studio, Byggstudio, Work Worth Doing, onlab, Twopoints.Net, Practise, Dexter Sinister, Adrian Shaughnessy, Charlotte Cheetham, HudsonBec, Urs Lehni, Onomatopee, Rob Giampietro, Will Holder, Sean Donahue & Jon Sueda, Thumb, Stephen Coates, Dave Eggers, Office, Sam Potts, Stefan G. Bucher, William Drenttel (Winterhouse), Zak Kyes, Metahaven / The story of the Guardian typefaces 2003-2005 Text by Paul Barnes
A Cultural History of Contemporary Design Vol. 3 Ken Fujieda (Coa Graphics)Text by Barbora
The Shape of Things to Come Vol. 3 Text by Takashi Serizawa Design by Tokyo Pistol
MeMe Design Journal Vol.3 "Printing and Design" Hitomi Sago and Toppan Printing
NEWS & INFORMATION
Fumio Tachibana x NIKE SPORTSWEAR
Special supplement with CD: raster-noton "aiff-tiff"
Special Feature: Writings on Design / [Special Interview] Kenya Hara, Naomichi Kawahata, Hitoshi Suzuki, Kouhei Sugiura / [Contribution] Kan Akita, Katsumi Asaba, Tatsuya Ariyama, Keiko Itakura, Koji Iyama, Madoka Iwabuchi, Naohiro Ukawa, Akira Uno, Tatsuo Ebina, Takeaki Emori, Yasuyuki Okusada, Yukimasa Okumura, Masahiro Kakinokihara, Mitsuo Katsui, Kensaku Kato, Shun Kawakami, Atsuki Kikuchi, Issey Kitagawa, Tsuyoshi Kusano, Tsuyokatsu Kudou, Tadahiro Gunji, Masayoshi Kodaira, Yousuke Kobayashi, Kazuya Kondo, Koichi Sakano, Akira Sasaki, Kashiwa Sato, Naoki Sato, Yasuhiro Sawada, Mayumi Sawachi, Yuko Shoji, Yusuke Shono, Yoshihisa Shirai, Shin Sobue , Masami Takahashi, Kazumasa Nagai, Nobuo Nakagaki, Hideki Nakajima, Nakajo Masayoshi, Yasuhito Nagahara, Norio Nakamura, Naoko Nakui, Minoru Niijima, Kazunari Hattori, Noriaki Hayashi, Heikichi Harata, Kenjiro Harigai, Ichiro Higashiizumi, Keiko Hirano, Kouga Hirano, Kotarou Hirano, Naomi Hirabayashi, Satoshi Machiguchi, Kei Mtasuhita, Yukimasa Matsuda, Shin Matsunaga, Syunichi Mamura, Marubashi Katsura, Manabu Mizuno, Kijuro Yahagi, Nobuhiro Yamaguchi / The Shape of Things to Come Vol. 2 Text by Takashi Serizawa, Design by Tokyo Pistol / MeMe Design Journal Vol. 2 "Language, Letter and Space" Nobuhiro Yamaguchi and Kiwao Nomura, Design by MeMe Design School + Nakagaki Design Office[Customer Notice]Almost all of articles in this issue is written in Japanese Language.
Special Feature: D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT 2005-2008 / Kenmei Nagaoka Long Interview / Talk with Tetsuo Matsumoto, Talk with Naoto Fukasawa [Japanese Only] / What is long life design? / Total contents of 'd long life design' / Long Life corporate marks in Japan / The Shape of Things to Come Vol. 1 Text by Takashi Serizawa, Design by Tokyo Pistol / A Cultural History of Contemporary Design Vol. 2 Manabu Koga / MeMe Design Journal Vol. 1 "From format to Layout" Hitoshi Suzuki and Tatsuya Ariyama, Design by MeMe Design School + Nakagaki Design Office