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Cover Design: George Hardie
Photography: James Stewart
Table of Contents Design: Hiromi Nakata
Editor in chief: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Editorial Director: Kazuchika Sunaga
Publisher: Shigeo Ogawa
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake

Content includes:
Kiyoshi Awazu Art Exhibition by Shuntaro Tanigawa, Shigeo Fukuda, Setsu Asakura, Shigesato Itoi, Yosuke Yamashita, Katsuhiko Hibino
Special Feature: NTA Studios by Yoshiro Nakamura
Imagination for Champion Papers by James Miho by James Miho
Jonsson & Essen Creative Graphic Design Group AB by Greger Stenstrom
A Century of American Illustration (1880-1980) by Shinichiro Tora
Lecture of Pieter Brattinga: The Interrelation of Typography and Illustrations in Books and Magazines by Pieter Brattinga, Shigeru Watano
Works of Kaoru Kasai by Susumu Sakane
New Wave in SF Art by Akiko Hyuga
Sketching with Barbara Carr in New York, Rio, Hong Kong & Japan by Barbara Carr, Midori Imatake
Winners Announced for Visual Circus ’85 by Shigeo Fukuda
9/10th International Poster Biennale Warsaw 1984 by Zazislaw Szubert
Michael Corris, Large Scale Typographic Design by Michael Corris
Moscow International Peace Poster Concours ’84 by Shigeo Fukuda
David Tartakover’s “Produce of Israel”
List of the names and addresses of designers appearing in thie issue

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Idea 190, 1985-5. Cover design by George Hardie
Idea 190, 1985-5. Cover design by George Hardie
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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.