IDEA SPECIAL ISSUE
POSTER EXHIBITION BY TEN WORLD ARTISTS

Yoshihisa Ishihara [Editor] and Shigeo Fukuda [Designer]

Yoshihisa Ishihara [Editor] and Shigeo Fukuda [Designer]: IDEA SPECIAL ISSUE: POSTER EXHIBITION BY TEN WORLD ARTISTS. Tokyo: Seibundo- Shinkosha, 1982 [June 1982]. Original edition. Parallel texts in Japanese and English. A very good or better perfect-bound magazine in thick, printed wrappers: light wear overall, especially to the perfect-bound spine. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print and rather uncommon. Cover design by Shigeo Fukuda.

8.75 x 11.5 perfect-bound magazine with 124 pages and 253 Poster reproductions and short essays by the featured artists. IDEA served as the Japanese equivalent of GRAPHIS -- a magazine dedicating to promoting the Graphic Arts of a certain region to the rest of the world. IDEA offers the contemporary viewer a glimpse into Japanese Graphic Design Culture as it emerged from the ashes of World War II and made its influence felt on a global scale.

Contents:

  • Shigeo Fukuda: 30 examples
  • Kazumasa Naga: 32 examples
  • Makoto Nakamura: 26 examples
  • Ikko Tanaka: 22 examples
  • Tadanori Yokoo: 28 examples
  • Roger Dean: 12 examples
  • Jean Michel Folon: 26 examples
  • Milton Glaser: 29 examples
  • Holger Mathies: 25 examples
  • Waldemar Swierzy: 23 examples

This issue of IDEA also served as a catalog for the Exhibition of the same name at the Takashimaya Department Store in Tokyo in May 1982.

Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.

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