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Cover Design: Ikko Tanaka
Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Editorial Director: Noboru Sakamoto
Publisher: Shigeo Ogawa
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake

Content includes:
Special feature: Ikko Tanaka / World of Symbols by Motoo Nakanishi
Pierre Le-Tan by Shigeru Watano
The ballets transformed by the three art of graphic designers by Syuji Fujii
The Original Art by Dills Evans, Shinichiro Tora
Hirokazu Hashimoto and his elaborate illustration by Hideo Mukai
Tadanori Yokoo oneman exhibition by Shigesato Itoi
New York Art Directors Club, “Hall of Fame in 1980” Gene Federico, Otto Storch, Henry Wolf
Billboard Spectaculars by Marc Treib
Seibu Lions design policy by Gan Hosoya, Tadasu Fukano
Group Grapus by Gérard Mermoz
The Corporate design for the Hotel New Carina
Ken Miki’s Creative Idiosyncrasy

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Idea 166, 1981-5. Cover design by Ikko Tanaka
Idea 166, 1981-5. Cover design by Ikko Tanaka
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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.