Design: A Monthly Review Magazine, 1968 [Shigeo Fukuda, Tadanori Yokoo]

Design: A Monthly Review for the Integration of Every Field of Design edited by Takahiko Okada, No. 110, 1968. Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Tokyo, Japan. 8.75 x 11.50, pp. 100 including trade advertising with Japanese text only. Cover designed by Tadanori Yokoo. Heavily illustrated in black and white with a variety of graphic and industrial design related content including: a twelve-page feature article on Shigeo Fukuda: His Works and Personality by Takahiko Okada. Other content devoted to: Matsushita electric radio design; a report from Italy’s Compasso d’Oro 1967; a detailed article on Swedish design; the history of Japanese advertising art; modern design education at the Bauhaus; the American woodworker George Nakashima, a poster exhibition, book reviews and more. Tadanori Yokoo’s unique, collage-like cover design makes use of a brilliant color palette with inventive printing techniques and cultural Japanese and popular images juxtaposed against one another in an unconventional manner. For