1968 Japanese Design GRAPHIS 138-139 Yusaka KAMEKURA Ikko TANAKA Double issue

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GRAPHIS 138-391968 edition -- Double Issue devoted to Japanese DesignWalter Herdeg [Editor]: GRAPHIS 138-139. Zurich: Graphis Press 1964. Volume 24, No. 138-139, 1968. Original edition. Spine lightly rolled and textblock lightly thumbed. A very good or better copy. Interior unmarked and very clean. Cover calligraphy by Sofu Teshigahara.9.25 x 11.75 magazine with 180 pages of b/w and color examples of modern graphic design, circa 1968. Text in in English, French and German. Issue 138/139 of Graphis magazine is a special double issue all about Design in Japan. It starts with an Editor's Note from Editor In Chief Walter Herdeg and an Introduction by Masaru Katzumie, and includes articles on: Katachi-Traditional Japanese Pattern and Design, written by Y. Kamekura; Japanese Family Crests, by Yusaku Kamekura; Japanese Design Education, by Richard S. Thornton; Japan's Younger Generation of Designers, by Ikko Tanaka; Advertising Art in Japan Today, by Yusaku Kamekura; Japanese Advertising Photography, by Shigene Kanamaru; Packaging Design in Japan, by Kazumasa Nagai; Display Art in Japan, by Kyoshi Awazu; Editorial Art in Japan, by Hiromu Hara; and Industrial Design in Japan, by Masaru Katzumie. Introduction by Masaru Katzumie Katachi-- traditional Japanese pattern and design by Yusaka Kamekura Japanese family crests by Yusaka Kamekura Japanese read more