IDEA, International Advertising Art edited by Yoshihisa Ishihara, Vol. 38, No. 220, May 1990. Seibundo Shinkosha Publishing Co., Tokyo, Japan. 8.875 x 11.75, pp. 138 plus trade advertising. Japanese and English text. Cover illustration by: Dusan Kallay.
Published since 1953, IDEA is a bi–monthly magazine dedicated to international advertising art, illustration, graphic design and typography. Heavily illustrated throughout in black and white and color and packed with excellent and uncommon Japanese and international content.
Packed with interesting content not widely published in the United States featuring: The World Masters: 2 Paul Davis; The 30th Year Anniversary Exhibition of Nippon Design Center; ICOGRADA-JAGDA Pan-Pacific Design Congress ’89 Tokyo by Susumu Sakane; Charles S. Anderson Exhibition; Aoyama: Stationery Exhibition; JAGDA Poster Exhibition ‘WATER’ by Yusaku Kamekura and Shigeo Fukuda; Jeffrey Bacon’s Cinema Posters; Anita Kunz; The 1989 PDC International Gold Awards Competition by Lewis Moberly and Takeo Yao; Erik Spiekermann, A Typographer by Shigeru Watano and Yachiyo Matsuzaki; The Trick by Shigeo Fukuda; Normand Cousineau; Nelly; Charbonneaux; Ainslie MacLeod; International Design Festival ’89 4th International Design Competition and International Deisgn Award by Midori Imatake; Sudarshan Dheer by Paul Peter Piech; Thomas Kruse: The ‘Danish Picasso’ of Posters by Paul Peter Piech; Andre Miripolsky by Hisaka Kojima; Barbara J.D. Listenik; Series 18: Art in New York Today, Tom Clancy by Shoichiro Higuchi and more.
A very good, vintage magazine. Uncommon in the United States.