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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
Special Feature: Typo-Graphics of Herb Lubalin / Alan Fletcher: Fifty Years pf Graphic Work (and Play) Text by Emily King / "sans serif does not represent the final stage" karl gerstner international designer, artist and author. new books and a new typeface. Text and Design by Helmut Schmid / drawing works of Isao Makino / A Cultural History of Contemporary Design Vol. 1 Masaki Kojima, Text by Idea with Barbora / Interview with Fumio Tachibana "about Kyutai" Comments from Tasuya Ariyama, Gabin Ito, Yoshihisa Shirai, HeiQuiti Harata / "The History of Typos" Text and Design by Hirokazu Mukai / A Recent History of Writing and Drawing by Alex Rich and Jurg Leni / My Famicase (NES cartridge) Design Exhibition 2008
Special Feature: Grass Roots of DesignTatsuya Ariyama / Shin Akiyama / Kenjiro Harigai (ANSWR/ADAPTER) / Naohiro Ukawa / Takeaki Emori (tone twilight) / Enlightment / Yasuyuki Okusada / Kasetsu / Karera / Bluemark / Akira Sasaki / Naoki Sato (ASYL) / Yusuke Shouno / SKKY / Yurio Seki / Isao Tanaka / Tokyo Pistol / Yasuo Totsuka / Kazunari Hattori / HeiQuiti Harata / Bit Rabbit (Tattaka+Juca) / Koga Hirano / Mitsuo Fukawa / Satoshi Machiguchi / Design and Editorship Text & Edit: Shoji Usuda / Biotope of Design and Publication Text & Edit: Barbora + Idea / Eine graphische Geschichte der japanischen Musik Fanzine by Barbora Cover Artwork: Fumio Tachibana
Special Feature: Book Design in China Today / Works of Lu Jingren / Chinese Book Design in Bloom - Collected works of 13 contemporary designers / [dialogue] Kohei Sugiura x Lu Jingren / The new blood of Chinese design / Study on the Historical Development of Graphic Design and Typography in China 1805-1949 Text: Sun Mingyuan / TDC BCCKS The 20th Anniversary Exhibition / Typefaces of Past and Present (1) "Dwiggins Revisited" Text: Sibylle Hagmann / The current state and future of Japanese Gothic Typefaces Text: Hiroshi Komiyama / Kallos-graphe Selection of Works by Brody Neuenschwander / Film Kunst Grafik - German Film Poster from the 1960s
Special Feature: The books and magazines of Takashi Kono / Text by Naomichi Kawahata / Recollection of Takashi Kono [Japanese Only] Masayoshi Nakajo, Gan Hosoya, Hannmo Sugiura, Michiaki Matsuyama / Kazunari Hattori "Shikaku Dentatsu (Visual Communication)"/ Special Feature: The Work of Vier5 / Forms of Inquiry - The Architecture of Critical Graphic DesignCover Design: Kazunari Hattori
IDEA NO. 325 : A Natural History of Printers' Flowers
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Special Feature: A Natural History of Printers' FlowersColumn [Japanese Only]Taro Yamamoto "Fournier's Ornaments"Yoshihisa Shirai "On Printers' Flowers"[Japanese Translation] "Printers' Flowers and Arabesques" Francis Meynell, Stanley Morison [Notes on this article by Mitsuo Kono]Feature II: Various Aspects of Contemporary Ornaments and PatternsZuzana Licko, The Pattern Foundry, Andrea Tinnes, Kapitza, Marian Bantjes, House Industries, Typographic MasonryWhen Flying Pigs Design vol. 38 Text by Kyoichi Tsuzuki"Bangkok-Japanese, 1963: Japanese posters made in Thailand"Critical eyes for Japanese typeface vol.3 by Mitsuo Fukawa, Toshiaki Maeda**Special Supplement: The Treasury of Printers' Flowers
IDEA NO. 324 : Maps and Diagrams / Andrew Blauvelt
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Special Feature: Maps and Diagrams / An Interview with Kohei Sugiura: Generating diagrams, transforming subject. / Special Poster: Time-based Map of Japanese Archipelago / Special Feature2: Andrew Blauvelt Walker Art Center 1998-2007 From Work to Text / When flying pigs design Vol. 37 Text by Kyoichi Tsuzuki / Critical eyes for Japanese Typefaces vol. 2: Typeface and Kana, Mitsuo Fukawa, Hiroshi Komiyama & Junichi Kusaka / On Hand Lettering Vol.7 Chapter II Part 4, Koga Hirano, Naomichi Kawahata and Osamu Torinoumi
IDEA NO. 323 : Wim Crouwel
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Special Feature: Wim Crouewel's adventures into the experimental worldsIntroduction / Poster / Book design / Stamp, Logotype, Typeface / New Alphabet / "The WC Alphabets" Text by Sergio Polano, with William Bottin / "Type Design for the Computer Age" Text by Wim Crouwel / "Typography: A Technique of Making a Text 'Legible' " Text by Wim Crouwel /Comments on Wim Crouwel