Graphic design

For decades, graphic designers have been challenging aesthetics and contributing to revolutionary movements through design, advertising, art and fashion. While movements such as the Bauhaus and the International Style are widely recognized, there were other more experimental and non-Western designers whose work had a drastic impact on the field. 
Our selection brings your the sharpest Japanese reference books and design titles in the world such as Idea, Graphic Design, Creation whilst also presenting some classic volumes such as the Graphis series and much more.

  • Trademarks and Symbols n°2 by Yasaburo Kuwayama (1972)
  • Trademarks, Symbol Marks, Logotypes:  1976-1977 in Japan (1978)
  • IDEA Special Issue: Graphic Designers on the West Coast (1975)
  • IDEA n°92 (January 1969)
  • The Complete Tadanori Yokoo - 1st edition (1971)
    The Complete Tadanori Yokoo - 1st edition (1971)
  • IDEA Special Issue: Tadanori Yokoo’s Posters (1995)
    IDEA Special Issue: Tadanori Yokoo’s Posters (1995)
  • The Complete Posters  of Tadanori Yokoo (2010)
  • Airbrush Art in Japan 2 (1986)
  • Airbrush Art in Japan 1 (1984)
  • IDEA Archive 01: Saul Bass & Associates (2003)
  • American Trademark Designs (1976)
  • Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art (2017)
  • Herb Lubalin: Art Director, Graphic Designer and Typographer (1985)
  • Tadanori Yokoo’s Posters (1974)
  • Photographis (1986)
  • Photographis (1985)
  • Photographis (1984)
  • Graphis Posters (1981)
  • Graphis Posters (1987)
  • Graphis Posters (1984)
  • Graphis Posters (1980)
  • Graphis Posters (1985)
  • CREATION issue 12 (1993)
  • GRAPHIS POSTERS (1979)
  • ART TECHNIQUE NOW n°8 : Josaku Maeda (1978)
  • ART TECHNIQUE NOW n°19 : Ikko Tanaka (1977)
  • ART TECHNIQUE NOW n°11 : Shigeo Fukuda (1977)
  • ART TECHNIQUE NOW n°12 : Aijiro Wakita (1978)
  • ARCHIGRAPHIA GRAPHIS (1978)
  • CREATION issue 16 (1993)
  • Graphic Design issue 6 (January 1962)
  • Bauhaus (1969)
  • Twelve Persons in Graphic Design Today vol.1 (1968)
  • Art Technique Now n°17: Kazumasa Nagai
  • Letterheads (1986)
    Letterheads (1986)
  • The Work Of Ikko Tanaka (1975)
    The Work Of Ikko Tanaka (1975)
  • Greeting Cards - edited by Takenobu Igarashi (1989)
  • IDEA - Herb Lubalin special issue (1969)
  • Graphis Annual 74/75
    Graphis Annual 74/75
  • Graphis Packaging (vol.2)
  • Radical Media Archive vol.1/7 book
    Radical Media Archive vol.1/7 book

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