IDEA NO. 329 : Typo-Graphics of Herb Lubalin -- July 2008

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

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Design of UNIQLO

A visual research on design and advertisements of UNIQLO from 1997, and Interviews with creative directors and stuffs.
[interviews] Tadashi Yanai, John C. Jay, Noriyuki Tanaka, Kashiwa Sato, Markus Kiersztan.
[Special Projects] Proposals of T-shirts design by 17 designers.Some of the designs are to be sold on UNIQLO shops over the worlds. Please check UNIQLO site (http://www.uniqlo.com).

Nihongo Kumihan no Kangaekata
[The Manual of Japanese Typesetting]

A detailed analysis of Japanese Typesetting in aspects of its elements, attibution and structur. [Text in Japanese]

Kihon NIhongo Katsuji Shusei [Specimenbook of Japanese Typeface]

This large volume includes 1650 typefaces from 18 foundries, with many typesetting examples and detailed technical notes. A must for designers, editors and publishers.
[Text in Japanese]

Po: Shinro Ohtake & Idea Poster Collection

Shinro Ohtake is a outstanding figure in the contemporary art world in Japan. His works encompass painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, wrinting and publishing, puroduced in overwehelming quality and quantity everyday. His last exhibition Zen Kei held at Museum of Modern Art Tokyo in 2006 was greatly successful, attracting national attention.

He had continued the serial poster project bound in IDEA from 1999 to 2005, resulting in 85 works. They are mostly original artworks especially made for this project. Some poster even used 8 colours in the unusually large format (around 800x600mm). The subjects of those posters emcompassed the whole range of the artist's world, reflecting his main themes.

Po: Shinto Ohtake & Idea Poster Collection includes all the posters with detailed notes on backgrounds of each works.

Design of Kenya Hara [Idea Archive]

Reprint edition of Idea no. 306 "Design of Kenya Hara", the issue which recieved great reputation internationally.

Typography in Japan

The revised and enlarged edition of Idea No.310: Typography in Japan 1995-2005.
Typography works of 66 Japanese designers to observe the rennovative changes over the turn of the century.
TEXT IN JAPANESE ONLY.

Idea Archive 02 Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser (1929-) is known as a designer and illustrator leading the United States in the later half of the 20th century. He is one of the founders of Pushpin Studio. This book is a compilation of Glaser's 60s graphic work.

TOMATO WORKSHOPS

Editor: Ed Panar, Sumiko Ayata
Record of tomato workshops which was held from 2000 till 2002. Including works by the participants, interview to tomato, the photographs of workshops and so on.

Idea Archive 01 Saul Bass & Associates

Text and lauout by Saul Bass & Associates
Orginally published as a Idea Special issue in 1979. Becasue of no plates existing any more, this book is digitally facsimiled and remasterd carefully from the actual copy.

typography today [new edition]

typography today introduces the selected works of 88 designers from 15 countries. It traces the course of modern typography from pioneers such as Lissitzky, Tschichold and Zwart; to Emil Ruder, Karl Gerstner and Herb Lubalin; through to Wolfgang Weingart, Wim Crouwel and Kohei Sugiura. The new edition includes works by Neville Brody, April Greiman and Ahn Sang-Soo.

IDEA v.s. The Designers Republic [Special Projects]

For all TDR lovers and children.

Over hundreds selected works printed in extraordinary quality with extra colours and special effects. Based on idea 278 DR issue, hundreds of images are added , which are printed in exact pms colours. Projects included are wipe out series, emigre, satishi tomiie, funkstöung, warp, gatecrasher, towa tei and more.

Exclusively available on our web site.
Limited 3000 copies

IDEA Special Edition
IDEA v.s. The Designers Republic [Special Projects]
Vinyl Cover / Thread Binding / 225 mm x 275mm / 220 pages
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IDEA CLASSICS

The compilation of "The World Masters." projects which was published in IDEA from No. 229 to 244. Including selected works of innovative 23 masters.

IDEA Liquid Vol.1 - 8

"IDEA Liquid" is a compilation of selected articles which once appeared in IDEA but not available any more although there are many calls for them. In short, You can say that "IDEA Liquid" is like a best omnibus volume.