Graphic Design 02, 1960

Dimensions: 260 × 300 mm
Curatorial Note: Added by Curator on October 7, 2025
Related Items: Graphic Design 88 (1982); IDEA Magazine (1955)

This 1960 issue of Graphic Design marks an early moment in Japan’s modern design discourse — where artists, architects, and typographers began to define a distinctly Japanese visual identity within an international context.

The issue’s content spans theory, practice, and experimentation: Masashiro Yamaguchi explores Space and Composition; Masaru Katsumi writes on Olivetti Design Policy and Abstraction and Design; Jun Hamamura profiles Yoshio Hayakawa as both artist and designer. Collaborative features such as Print Design Laboratory ② Trump by Tadao Ujihara, Ensuke Kawasaki, Tadashi Ohashi, and Akira Uno demonstrate the period’s collective spirit of exploration.

Other highlights — Unsun Carta by Ichitaro Kondo, Children’s Calligraphy by Noriaki Fujisawa, and the ’60 Calendar designed by Kohei Sugiura and Ikko Narahara — reflect the diversity of visual culture in postwar Japan. Together, they reveal how graphic design became both a site of artistic inquiry and a mirror of social change.