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Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Assistant Editor: Tadashi Hamada
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake
Cover Design: Jan Rajlich

Content includes:
David Hillman’s editorial design for Nova Magazine by Shigeru Watano
Design Works by Jan Rajlich by Shigeo Fukuda
Frances Jetter: A new force in American art by Charles Goslin
Philip Chiang by Takenobu Igarashi
“Box and Cox” by Katsu Kimura by Shigeo Fukuda
“Exhibition of Works by Chubu Graphic Illustrators” Held in New York
Yuzo Matsumoto by Shigeru Watano
Graphic Design Grand Scale: IBM Interiors
Reading the City: Maps, Images, and the Japanese Sense of Place by Marc Treib
Impressions of Japan by Don Weller
Changing Illustrator: Tadanori Yokoo by Akiko Hyuga
Aspen, Colorado, U.S.A. by Kiyoshi Awazu
Report on My Participation of the International Design Conference in Aspen by Kazumasa Nagai
Report on the International Design Conference in Aspen by Don Weller
Sign design in Japan by Ryuichi Hamaguchi

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Idea 157, 1979-11. Cover design by Jan Rajlich
Idea 157, 1979-11. Cover design by Jan Rajlich
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Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

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The typographic designs produced for the National Theatre by Ken Briggs are not only iconic and depict the Swiss typographic style of the time, but remain a key example of the creation of a cohesive brand style.

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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
In the ambitious new monograph Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume shines a light on the complete arc of the exceptionally rich and varied career of Rudolph de Harak, showcasing his vibrant, graphic, formally brilliant work, which blazed a colourful trail through the middle decades of the twentieth century.