CREATION issue 12 (1993)

Published from 1989 to 1994, Creation was a key Japanese graphic design magazine that documented postwar visual culture, linking design with advertising, typography, and identity systems.

With a modernist, structured approach, it treated commercial design as cultural practice, connected Japan to global movements and helped define the precise, refined character of Japanese graphic modernism.

From its beginning, editor Yusaku Kamekura warned the readers, the magazine would end with issue 20. In that sense, this editorial project questioned what it meant to produce a limited life span magazine. 

This special edition examines the relationship between design by presenting the work of nine artists and designers. This editorial showcases mediums such as photography, posters, illustrations and paintings through the work of figures such as Tom Curry, Nisuke Shimotani, Jerome Snyder, Arata Isozaki and more. As per usual, Creation magazine manages to present a rich and world-wide selection of artworks, showcasing the impossibility to assign graphic design to one specific genre or discipline.

Dimensions: 22x30cm
169 pages.

Condition: Excellent.

Text in English and Japanese

This is part of a delivery of Creation magazines books now available at the bookstore.