GRAPHIC DESIGN IN JAPAN VOLUME 3
Japan Graphic Designers Association,
Yuichi Amano [foreword]
Japan Graphic Designers Association, Yuichi Amano [foreword]: GRAPHIC DESIGN IN JAPAN VOLUME 3. Tokyo, New York, San Francisco: Kodansha Interational, Ltd., 1983. First edition. Text in English. Quarto. Red cloth embossed and titled in silver. Printed dust jacket. Magenta endpapers. Unpaginated. 578 color illustrations. Glossy jacket lightly rubbed, but a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket.
10.5 x 13.75 hardcover book with 578 color illustrations. Jacket design by Kazumasa Nagai, layout by Takashi Nomura and Mitsuo Katsui, and art direction by Keisuke Nagatomo. Ikko Tanaka served on both the Editorial and Selection Committees.
Includes work by Masuteru Aoba, Katsumi Asaba, Kiyoshi Awazu, Susumu Endo, Kotaro Hirano, Shigeo Fukuda, Tsuyoshi Fukuda, Yoshitake Hirayama, Keiko Hirohashi, Masaaki Hiromura, Gan Hosoya, Takenobu Igarashi, Kenji Ito, Shozo Itoi, Koji Iwagami, Yukio Kanise, Takashi Kanome, Shigeo Kawakami, Katsu Kimura, Mitsuo Katsui, Shigeo Katsuoka, Kuni Kizawa, Hiroshi Kojitani, Kazumasa Nagai, Hideo Mukai, Keisuke Nagatomo, Masao Nishida, Shigeo Okamoto, Kiyoshi Omori, Takeshi Otaka, Makoto Saito, Katsumi Asaba, Minoru Deushi, Toru Asada, Susumo Endo, Shigeo Asano, Mad Amano, Tadasu Fukano, Yusaku Kamekura, Hiroshi Kaneko, Shuzo Kato, Yoshiro Kato, Hideyo Matsuda, Koji Mizuno, Ryo Nagae, Yoshohiro Nagata, Akira Nishii, Tetsuo Noda, Tadashi Ohashi, Kigen Oki, Isamu Ota, Kazuhiro Ozawa, Hideo Saito, Kenichi Samura, Hiroshi Sato, Koichi Sato, Taku Tada, Ikko Tanaka, Shin Tanaka, Masakazu Taniguchi, Ryo Urano, Koichi Watanabe, Tamotsu Yagi, Takeo Yao, Tadanori Yokoo, and many, many others.
“The Japan Graphic Designers Association [JAGDA] was launched in April 1978 with 705 members, which soon exceeded 1,000 in the same year. After becoming a public-interest corporation in 1984, JAGDA evolved into a graphic design organization representing Japan. However, not everything in the Association’s history has gone smoothly. While responding to actual social needs in accordance with economic trends and other temporal developments, we have evolved into an organization that is characterized by its members’ cutting-edge sensitivity. Our mission for the 21st century, an age requiring further advancements in design, is to expand the definition of “graphic design” and work toward creation of a new stage in its history.”