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Design History, Issue 18 2021
Design History, Issue 18, 2021
Contents
Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board
Articles
Yokohama Scarf ’s “Creativity”:
Analysis of “Traditional + Modern” Design
Monden Sonoko
Bauhaus 101 Years and Beyond
Kakuyama Tomoko
Dreams of Post-Bauhaus 100
Fukagawa Masafumi
Progress in Research on New Bauhaus and Remaining Issues
Iguchi Toshino
Innovativeness in Architectural Education at the Bauhaus
Tomita Hideo
The Influence of Bauhaus on Graphic Design Education
From the Essay of Koji Kusabuka
Nishioka Yoshiya
Book Reviews
FOmoya Shinsuke “A Design History of Modern Household Objects in Britain, the United States, and Japan”
Kuresawa Takemi
Exhibition Review
Constructive Posters of the 20th Century
[Landscape of Image and Text]:Is Visual Communication Possible?
Endo Ritsuko
Noise
Creativity which derives from “seeing something as something else.”
Yokota Satoko
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
Constitution and Bylaws
Notes on Contributors
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Design History, Issue 19, is scheduled to be published in July 2022.
Design History, Issue 17 2020
Design History, Issue 15, 2017
Contents
Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board
Articles
The Awareness of Design in Yokohama Export Scarf Industry Monden Sonoko
15th Symposium of the Design History Workshop Japan (DHWJ)
Design and the Olympic Games
Coordinator: Iguchi Toshino
Masaru Katsui in the 1964 Japanese Olympic Committee
Nishimura Mika
The official logo of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games:
Kamekura Yusaku in 1960
Kida Takuya
Pictograms of the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964 and Masaru Katsumi’s ‘the International relay of symbols’
Ihara Hisayasu
1964/2020 Comparison of Olympic Design
Takemi Kuresawa
Book Reviews
Fabien Petiot, Chloé Btaunstein-Kriegel “Crafts: Today’s Anthology for Tommorow’s Crafts”
Reviewed by Kida Takuya
Takashi Kashima Olympic Design Marketing: From the Emblem
Reviewed by Nishioka Yoshiya
Exhibition Review
Graphich in Vienna around 1900: New Design gor New of Life
Kakuyama Tomoko
Noise
Exploring a place for Design:
About the exhibision “Where Design is found”
Nomiyama Sakura
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
Constitution and Bylaws
Notes on Contributors
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Design History, Issue 16, 2018
Design History, Issue 15, 2017
Contents
Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board
Articles
Evolution of Chinese jewellery design in modern context:
From craft to haute couture
Wendy S Wong
Avant-grade of the “Viennese Kineticism” in the Interwar Austria:
Originality and Resonance with International Modernism Movements
Kakuyama Tomoko
Contemporary Reflections on Design History Education in the UK
Jonathan M Woodham
Book Reviews
Reconstruction from the East North Japan Great Earthquake and kon Wajiro: Knowledges in Making and Living,
Reviewed by Omoya Shinsuke
Exhibition Review
“AMBIENT Lifestyle Items Designed by Naoto Fukazawa Design that inspires sense of living”
Kakuyama Tomoko
Noise
On the Transdiscliplinarity of French Education
Endo Ritsuko
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
Constitution and Bylaws
Notes on Contributors
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Design History, Issue 15, is scheduled to be published in June 2018.
Design History, Issue 15, 2017
Design History, Issue 15, 2017
Contents
Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board
Articles
Ideal or Reality?
History of Women’s New Tableware:
aim at Orientalist of Western Tableware
Kida Takuya
Nippon Product
Book Reviews
Propaganda and the British Suffrage Movement:
Edwardian Visual Representation and the Feminine Image.
Reviewed by Monden Sonoko
Exhibition Review
“Marimekko Design, Fabric, Lifestyle”
Goto Hiroka
Noise
Some shouts regarding design history education
Kakiyama Tomoko
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
Constitution and Bylaws
Notes on Contributors
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Design History, Issue 15, is scheduled to be published in June 2018.
Design History, Issue 14, 2016
Design History, Issue 14, 2016
Contents
Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board
Articles
The Imaging Strategy of Shiseido in the 1930s
Analyzing visual magazines that represented corporate identity
Kaneda Sachi
The case study of the embroidery culture of the ethnic minority in
the Yunnan Provinces, China: From the initiatives of “intangible culture heritage” by the Yunnan Art University(YAU)(in Japanese)
Qian Gao
Suit and Kimono: Reconsidering Japanese Modern Fashion
Book Reviews
Furniture-Makers and Consumers in England, 1754-1851
Design as Interaction
Reviewed by Arai Ryuji
Exhibition Review
“Miyake Issey Exhibition”: the Work of Miyake Issey”
Iguchi Toshino
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
Constitution and Bylaws
Notes on Contributors
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Design History, Issue 15, is scheduled to be published in June 2017.
Design History, Issue 13, 2015
Design History, Issue 13, 2015
Contents
Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board
Articles
Classical antiquity regression and development toward modern modeling in Ballets Russes “The afternoon of a Faun”(1912)
:An analysis of the costume of the nymph and the choreography by Leon Bakst (in Japanese)
Tejima Yukiko
Stuttgart Teaching and Research Studio and the Relations with United Workshops for Art in Craftwork, Munich (in Japanese)
Harikai Yukiko
Japanese Urban Everyday Life and Design
Book Reviews
Kōgei to Nashonarizumu no Kindai
(Modernity in Crafts in relation to Nationalism)
Reviewed by Kikuchi Yuko
Bedřock Feuerstein
Reviewed by Petr Holý
Exhibition Review
Raising the issue of design
policy Osaka Expo’70 Design Project
Kuresawa Takemi
Noise
Hiroko Koshino and Art
── An Introduction to the KH Gallery ──
Nakamura Mariko
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
Constitution and Bylaws
Notes on Contributors
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Design History, Issue 14, is scheduled to be published in June 2016.
Design History, Issue 12, 2014
Design History, Issue 12, 2014
Contents
Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board
Articles
The Influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement on the 20th Centry Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain
Sato Mayuka
Interface Design in Early Media Arts
:the Study of Creating Interactive Space as Expression
Hasegawa Shiho
Print and Printmarking
:The Independent Publishing Movement in Japan 1905-1935
Louise Rouse
Modernist Architecture and Design in Global Context
:Transcultural Inspirations
Book Reviews
A Magnetic Field between the Cultures of the East and West
:studies of Histories of Interactions between Bounderies of Architecture, Design and Crafts in Modern Japan
Reviewed by Kida Takuya
The Reimann School – A Design Diaspora
Reviewed by Andrew Reimann
Exhibition Review
Art + Living: Takashimaya The Department Store as a Culture Setter
Jinno Yuki
Noise
Issues Surrounding Copyright and Design Collection
Nishiyama Kaoru
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
Constitution and Bylaws
Notes on Contributors
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Design History, Issue 13, is scheduled to be published in June 2015.
The deadline for submissions of Issue 14 is 30 November 2015.
Design History, Issue 11, 2013
Contents
Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board
Articles
Books in Japan during the Second World War and the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1941-1952
Endo Ritsuko
Pontypool Japanned Ware: the Genesis of Black Gloss and Golden Motifs
Suzuki Hiroko
‘Towards a transnational design history in East Asia’ (Introduction)
Book Reviews
British Aviation Posters Art, Design and Flight
Reviewed by Yamamoto Masayuki
Sonia Delaunay the birth of the art garment,
Reviewed by Tsunemi Mikiko
Exhibition Reviews
Ikko Tanaka and future/ Past/ East/ West of Design
Nishioka Yoshiya
Noise
Thoughts on Minimal Dwelling Tea Room Kuresawa Takemi
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
Constitution and Bylaws
Notes on Contributors
Design History, Issue 10, 2012
Contents
Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board
Articles
Promoting Modern Swedish Design after the 1990s/ Kurabayashi Sachiko
The 9th DHWJ Symposium ‘Reconsidering Moholy-Nagy: Beyond the realm of Art’
Book Reviews
Out of the Ordinary: Polish Desingers of the 20th Century/ Reviewed by Kakuyama Tomoko
Exhibition Review
Metabolism, The City of the Future: Dream and Visions of Reconstruction in Postwer and Present-Day Japan/ Reviewed by Adachi Junko
Noise
BEA meets the Beatles: Planes and Pop Music in the 1960s/ Scott Anthony
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
Constitution and Bylaws
Notes on Contributors
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