Let me introduce my publication released last autumn. It’s about 3D typography developed by the designer and the sculptor, Takenobu Igarashi. It took almost 3 years to complete the project but I really enjoyed the production process. Due to the limit of the page number, we couldn’t include every single work Igarashi did but it contains a large number of images in color! There are materials that reveal Igarashi’s creative mind such as design drafts, sketches, and photographs as such. I was in charge of editing and writing. The design was by Haruki Mori, who used to work for Igarashi. He also did editing with me.
In 1987, you probably shopped at a United Colors of Benetton store. You may have worn one of these t-shirts. “Why wear just a top when you can stand out in art? Nine famous American graphic artists made these knockout designs, exclusively for Benetton.”
Lella and Massimo Vignelli gathered nine graphic designers, including Massimo Vignelli himself and Michael Bierut (Vice President of Graphic Design at the Vignelli office), to each design a t-shirt for the Italian clothing company Benetton. The other seven designers were: April Greiman, Dan Friedman, Takenobu Igarashi, Seymour Chwast, Woody Pirtle, Michael Vanderbyl, and Milton Glaser.
Today is 8/8/18 and it’s also time for this month’s #ArchivesHashtagParty hosted by the National Archives and Northwestern University’s Transportation Library. With all these eights, what could be more fitting than an #Archives80s theme. Archives, libraries, and museums (and you can too!) are sharing their 80s-themed artifacts! (That includes 1780s, 1880s, or 1980s).