IKKO TANAKA: POSTERS 1953 - 91
Ikko Tanaka
Ikko Tanaka Design Studio [editor]: IKKO TANAKA: POSTERS 1953 - 91. Tokyo: Cosmo Public Relations Group, 1991. First edition. Text in English and Japanese. A near fine minus soft cover book with thick printed wrappers and minor shelf wear. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
10 x 9.5 soft cover book with 58 pages and 68 color illustrations. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Keihan Gallery of Art and Science, Moriguchi City, Japan [Aug 30 - Sept 11, 1991]. Includes a short essay The Forms of Space by Junji Itoh and an Ikko Tanaka biographical sketch. Translated by Lynne E. Riggs. Beautifully printed by Mochizuki Printing Co., Ltd.
From the web site for the Art Director's Club: "Strong, clean, and impactful are the best descriptives you could use to describe Ikko Tanaka's work. They are universal images, honed with a fastidious eye: finding the natural flow of photographs in a book spread, steadying the central point of a corporate symbol so the mind retains every detail, and enriching the typographic and illustrative forces of a poster into a pure, homogeneous form."