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Cover Illustration: Tom Curry
Editor in chief: Fumio Sudoh
Editorial Director: Hisao Matsumoto
Publisher: Shigeo Ogawa
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake

Content includes:
[Special Feature] Works of Seymour Chwast from “Seymour Chwast, the Left-Handed Designer” by Steven Heller
David Pocknell’s Company Ltd. by David Pocknell
TOKYO in TOKYO “Tokyo: its Shape and Mind” Exhibit to Tour US by Arata Isozaki, Tadanori Yokoo, Shigeo Fukuda, Hiroshi Hara, Eiko Ishioka, Toyoo Ito, Kohei Sugiura, Fumihiko Maki, Kiyoshi Awazu, Tadao Ando, Shiro Kuramata
Swiss Poster Designers Series Exhibition, Burkhard Mangold, Emil Cardinaux by Oskar Bätschmann, Thomas Bolt
Tom Curry: “Stylized Graphic Realism with a Humorous Twist” by Tom Curry
Quality and Control Form Within – Corporate Graphic Design / Kimberly-Clark by Imatak
Anita Kunz and Her Mysterious World by Akiko Hyuga
2nd International Design Festival held in Osaka by Imatake
Book Review “GA, Illustrators 25” by Yoshihisa Ishihara
Ceramic Exhibition: Painting / Ryuichi Yamashiro, Ceramic / Taizo Kuroda by Ikko Tanaka
Exchange of Contemporary French and Japanese Posters Exhibition by Shin’ichi Segi
“City and Art: the Modernism od Osaka and Kobe” held at Hyogo Prefectural Museum Modern Art, Kobe by Haruhiko Fujii
The BAG Exhibition: Carrier Bags from London, Paris, New York, Milan, Tokyo
Parsons Graphic Design in Japan by Yusaku Kamekura, Ikko Tanaka, Kiyoshi Kanai, Janaia Donaldson, Jose Conde, Elissa Ichiyasu, Frances Ullenberg, Susan Hopper, Carol Gillot

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Idea 195, 1986-3. Cover design by Tom Curry
Idea 195, 1986-3. Cover design by Tom Curry
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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.