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Cover Design: Enzo Messi, Urs Schmidt, Francois Rappo
Editor in chief: Fumio Sudoh
Editorial Director: Yoshihisa Ishihara
Publisher: Shigeo Ogawa
Editorial Cooperation: Ohchi Design Office
Editorial Cooperation: Midori Imatake

Content includes:
Enzo Messi & Urs Schimidt by Enzo Messi, Urs Schmidt, Francois Rappo
Issac Victor Kerlow and “The Maya Series” by Issac Victor Kerlow
Tadashi Sato: World of Digital Typography by Kazumasa Nagai
The Best of the 80s Exhibition by Paul Haslip
Illustrator’s Interpretations Exhibition – Exhibition of Original Paintings for Hotel Barmen’s Association Calendar 1979-1986 by Shinichiro Tora
Carol Gillot: Medical Computer Animated Illustration by Shinichiro Tora
Daniel Weil and “The New Design” by John Thackara
A Tribute to the Memory of Hiromu Hara by Yusaku Kamekura, Ikko Tanaka, Kazumasa Nagai, Helmut Schmid, Keisuke Konishi, Aaron Burns
David McGlynn’s multiple-frame “Composite Panoramas” by Tetsuro Hatano
Bridging the Modern Design to the 21st Century – Nancy Skolos by Christine Gebhard
AGI ’85: California U.S.A. by Takenobu Igarashi
Book Review: Mastering Layout – Mike Stevens
Special Feature: ’86 Graduation Works of Graphic Design Students
70th NIKA Exhibition, Commemorating 35th Aniversary of Visual Design Exhibition
The 46th Annual Exhibition of Art Culture Association

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Idea 197, 1986-7. Cover design by Enzo Messi, Urs Schmidt, Francois Rappo
Idea 197, 1986-7. Cover design by Enzo Messi, Urs Schmidt, Francois Rappo
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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.