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- USD $55.00 postpaid (international air shipping included)
- Designers:
- Laboratories
- Publisher:
- Seibundo Shinkosha
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- Idea + Publications
Explore Color Design:
Digital Color and the Future of Color Expression
A special issue of IDEA dedicated to contemporary design that embraces new approaches to color. IDEA #396 includes two additional custom printed inserts and also features an overview of the hottest young Japanese graphic designers.
Direction by Idea
Supervision by Naoki Mitsui

This issue ships with the IDEA 2022 Calendar, a beautiful offset and letterpress-printed calendar.
This issue features the work of:
Ikki Kobayashi







[Commentary] Color Mechanisms and Digital Color
Text by Naoki Mitsui

[Essay] Modern Design and Color:
A hue ring for theorizing harmony and contrast
Text by Ichiro Saga

[Column] A Common Language for Japanese Colors:
Mitsuo Katsui and the DIC Color Guide
[Interview]
PANTONE
Colors that can be reproduced anywhere in the world:
Creating a common language and developing services for colors

TAKEO
Updating colors to suit the times:
Takeo Fine Paper and Color Changes

Maximage
Color Library:
Developing digital tools to expand the possibilities of printing

Series|MIRRORS
Vol. 3:EDUCATION
Text by Tetsuya Goto
Design by Sulki & Min
Translation by Tetsuya Goto
English proofread by Duncan Brotherton

From Furniture to “New Furniture”
The Origin of CI/VI Design through the lens of Tendo Mokko Visual Design
Cooperation by Tendo Mokko
Text by Toshiaki Koga
Design by Toshimasa Kimura
Photography by Satoshi Aoyagi

Rediscovering Letterpress:
New Calendar 2022 Production File
Interview with Chika Yamamoto
Design by Jujiro Maki

NISSHA & IDEA Collaborative Creativity in Digital Printing Vol. 1
Design by shiroi-rittai

Exhibition Report│Typographic Composition,Yoshihisa Shirai from International Style to Classic Style and on to idea
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This issue ships with the IDEA 2022 Calendar, a beautiful offset and letterpress-printed calendar.
Design by Jujiro Maki