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Cover Illustration: Kenichi Kuriyagawa
Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Editorial Director: Kazuchika Sunaga
Publisher: Shigeo Ogawa
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake

Content includes:
Colors of Japan by Ikko Tanaka
Special Feature: Type Directors Club 29th Annual Exhibition by Yasaburo Kuwayama
The World of Kenichi Kuriyagawa: Graphic Design Rooted onto Natural Climate by Kiyoshi Awazu
ZOOM, the Visual Image Magazine by Shigeru Watano
The Peace Posters of Paul Peter Piech by Reiner Diederich, Dr. C. S. Chan Sandhu
Art Works of Arthur Paul by Shinichi Segi
Illustrators in Hokkaido Yoshihisa by Ishihara, Toyoaki Fujikura
Finnish Poster Exhibition from 1950 to Today by Mutsuaki Okai
Simple & Clear-sut Works of Susumu Harada + Hiroshi Uenoyama and Their Staff by Motoo Nakanishi
A Matter of Life and Death Exhibition by Shinichiro Tora
Studies of Graphic Design at Yale University by Minoru Niijima

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Idea 181, 1983-11. Cover design by Kenichi Kuriyagawa
Idea 181, 1983-11. Cover design by Kenichi Kuriyagawa
Idea 181, 1983-11. Cover design by Kenichi Kuriyagawa
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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.