Design History, Issue 9, 2011

Contents

Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board

Articles
Kitaro Kunii’s Discourse on Indigenous Industrial Arts: “Japaneseness” and Modern Design in 1930s Japan / Kida Takuya
The Role of Dialogue between Producers and Consumers – The Design Process of Custom-Made Furniture in Late Eighteenth-Century England/ Shimbo Akiko

Special Contributions
Symposium: Reconsidering ‘World Design Conference 1960 in Tokyo’

Book Reviews
Swedish Modernism: Architecture, Consumption and Welfare State/ Reviewed by Kurabayashi Sachiko
Dezain no Chikara (Power of Design) / Reviewed by Monden Sonoko

Exhibition Reviews
SO+ZO 1960: The Era of Design and Spirit of the Arts / Reviewed by Asakura Mie

Noise
Jacob Epstein and Blackpool / Stuart Tulloch

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

Constitution and Bylaws

Notes on Contributors

How to Order Your Back Issues
 
 

『デザイン史学』第8号(2010年度)

Contents

Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board

Articles
The Adoption of Designs in English Ceramics in the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century-The Case of Transfer-Prints and Patterns on Wedgwood’s Useful Ware/ Arakawa Norihiko
The Reception of Japanese Prints and Printmaking in the Artistic Revivalof Woodblock Printmaking and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain / Itabashi Miya
Transnational correspondence-Tsuchiura Kameki, Tsuchiura Nobuko and Bedrich Feuerstein / Helena Capkova

Special Contributions
Symposium Record: Photography – Propaganda – Design

Book Reviews
Phil Baines, PENGUIN BY DESIGN: A Cover Story 1935-2005 / Reviewed by Yamamoto Masayuki
Jeremy Aynsley, Designing Modern Germany / Reviewed by Ihara Hisayasu

Exhibition Review
Speeding Japanese Cards: The Trajectory of Domestic Automobiles, Principally in the 1960s/ Reviewed by Kawano Katsuhiko

Noise
Reflection of a Maker / Tsutsumi Maiko

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

Constitution and Bylaws

Notes on Contributors

How to Order Your Back Issues
 
 

Design History, Issue 7, 2009

Contents

Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board

Articles
Orientalism in the Museum of Applied Arts Designed by Lechner Ödön: Regarding Colonial Architecture in the British Raj / Adachi Junko
Invention of Home Furniture “for People“ in Japan: The Achievements of Moriya Nobuo, a Leading Modern Industrial Designer in the 1920s / Anne Gossot
Applied Arts Education in Vienna in the 1910s and Felice Ueno-Rix’s Design Philosophy / Kakuyama Tomoko
The Contemporary Conceptual Space of “Traditional Crafts”: Definition, Representation and Image of Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware / Anthony Rausch

Special Contributions
Thoughts on Representation and Basic Ideas of the Grid System, the Age of Horizontal Type Setting, and Gothic (Sans Serif-Type) Style or Mincho (Roman-Type) Style / Habara Shukuro
Dynamic Information Graphics: The Visualization of Knowledge Using Dynamic Representation / Harada Yasushi
Developing the Universal Design Fonts for Digital Display Screens / Miyazaki Michio
The Next Generation of Digital Art: Current Situation and Student Works in Japan / Moriyama Tomoe

Book Reviews
Toni Huberman, Sonia Ashmore and Yasuko Suga eds., The Diary of Charles Holme’s 1889 visit to Japan and North America: with Mrs Lasenby Liberty’s Japan: a pictorial record / Reviewed by Anna Basham
Printing Museum ed., Japanese Graphic Design in the 1950’s; The Designer is Born / Reviewed by Endô Ritsuko

Noise
About Music and Simultaneity / Christophe Charles

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

Constitution and Bylaws

Notes on Contributors

How to Order Your Back Issues
 
 

『デザイン史学』第6号(2008年度)

Contents

Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board

Articles
Presentation of Gender in the Women’s Suffrage Processions of the Women’s Social and Political Union / Sato Mayuka
Function of Commodities and Functionalism of Modern Design / Ogawa Masaru
Czechoslovak Avant-garde Design as Temporary Construction: From Light Kinetic Advertisement by Pesánek to the Czechoslovak Pavilion by Krejcar at the International Exhibition of Art and Technology in Modern Life, Paris, 1937 / Iguchi Toshino

Special Contributions
Design, Text and Context: Design History for Whom? / Iguchi Toshino
History and Practice: the Problem of Design / John Heskett
The History of Design and Designers: the Use of History / Ekuan Shoji
What Designers Expect from Design History / Nagasawa Tadanori

Book Reviews
Furihata Hidefumi and Tohoku University of Art and Design Institute of Design Philosophy ed., Wisdom of Design, vol.1 / Reviewed by Hino Eiichi
Tsunemi Mikiko, Kuwasawa Yoko and the modern design movement / Reviewed by Shimada Atsushi

Noise
‘Design’ and ‘Dezain’: Musings from an Editor’s Desk / Muroga Kiyonori

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

Constitution and Bylaws

Notes on Contributors

How to Order Your Back Issues
 
 

Design History, Issue 5, 2007

Contents

Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board

Articles
The Relations of Beardsley in the Appearance of the Literary Quarterly The Yellow Book of the Vivid Image / Inoue Tomoko

The Editorial Design of Habara Shukuro: Its Idea of Modernism and Practice of the International Typographic Style / Nishimura Mika / translated by Jeremy Harley

Modern Seating, Modern Sitting: Japanese Women and the Use of the Chair / Mori Junko

Special Contributions
Gender and Modern Design: Women as Producers and Women as Consumers / Suga Yasuko
Gender and Modern Design: Women as Makers and Consumers / Penny Sparke
Kuwasawa Yoko and Modernism: from a Designer and Design Educator’s Perspective / Tunemi Mikiko / translated by Mori Junko
Modern Design and Women as Consumers / Jinno Yuki / translated by Mori Junko

Book Reviews
Nagata Kenichi, Hida Toyoron and Mori Hitoshi (eds.), Modern Japanese Design History / Reviewed by Kawano Katsuhiko / translated by Sarah Teasley
Kawamura Yuniya, The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion / Reviewed by Lars Bertram / translated by Sarah Teasley

Noise
30 Years old: The Design History Society / Jonathan M Woodham

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

Constitution and Bylaws

Notes on Contributors

How to Order Your Back Issues 
 
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Design History, Issue 4, 2006

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Contents

Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board

Articles
Dovetailing East and West: Wells Coates, Japonisme and the British Modern Movement / Anna Basham

Rereading ‘William Morris and Æsthetic Socialism’ by Iwamura Toru / Nakayama Shuichi

Special Contributions
Design Museums in Japan: Present and Future / Iguchi Toshino
Design Museums in Japan / Kimura Kazuo
The Design Exhibition in Japanese Public Museums / Hashimoto Keiko
Hangaram Design Museum and Design Exhibition Culture in Korea / Kim Sang-kyu

Book Reviews
M. Anna Fariello and Paula Owen eds., Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft / reviewed by Kikuchi Yuko
Goto Takeshi, Sasaki Masato and Fukazawa Naoto, The Ecological Approach to Design / reviewed by Odaka Naoki
Suga Yasuko, British Society and Design: The Politics of Representing Morris and Modernism / reviewed by Toshimitsu Isao

Noise
Museums in This Country Have Recently Become Too Focused on Education / Hashimoto Yuko

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

Constitution and Bylaws

Notes on Contributors

How to Order Your Back Issues
 
 
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Design History, Issue 3, 2005

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Contents

Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board

Articles
Developing a Collection of Japanese Art in Britain: A Case Study on Yamanaka and Company / Monden Sonoko

The Influence of Ruskin and Morris on Yamamoto Kanae’s Peasant Art Movement / Tsujimoto Yuki

Special Contributions
Views on the Japanese Design in the Post-war Period of Reconstruction / Nakayama Shuichi
Design History Research Memories / Toshimitsu Isao
Post-war Design Education / Hino Eiichi
Design Promotion Administration / Koseki Rikiya
Along with the GK Industrial Design Associates / Sone Yasumi

Book Reviews
Hara Kenya, Dezain no Dezain (The Design of Design) / reviewed by Harikai Aya
Yuko Kikuchi, Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory: Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism / reviewed by Suga Yasuko

Noise
A Decade as a Design Journalist / Watabe Chiharu
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

Constitution and Bylaws

Notes on Contributors

How to Order Your Back Issues
 
 
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『デザイン史学』第2号(2004年度)

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Contents

Editorial
About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board

Articles
A Political and Economic Change in Naxi People’s Tompa Characters in Lijiang, Yunnan Prefecture in China since the 1990s / Gao Qian

Architecture and Furniture Design in Modern Japan: The Case of Kogure Joichi / Sarah Teasley

Book Reviews
Kawahata Naomichi: Hara Hiromu to Bokutachi no shin kappan-jutsu (Hara Hiromu and Our New Printing Techniques) / reviewed by Iguchi Toshino
Alison J. Clarke, Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America / reviewed by Omoya Shinsuke

Noise
Metamorphosis of the Design Dialogue / Leimei Julia Chiu

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

Constitution and Bylaws

Notes on Contributors

How to Order Your Back Issues 
 


Editorial

About the DHWJ
Editorial Policy
Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board


Article 1

A Political and Economic Change in Naxi People’s Tompa Characters Lijiang, Yunnan Prefecture in China since the 1990s

Gao Qian

Keywords
Tompa Characters, Reform and Opening-up, Tourist Policy, Cultural Protection, Naxi People, Lijian, China

Abstract
Since embarking on policies of reform and opening-up in 1978, China has gradually lifted restrictions on culture and religions and actively developed various economic policies. As part of this process, the Tompa scriptures written in Tompa characters were successfully registered as a UNESCO World Heritage in 2003.

Tompa characters were originally pictographs used by Tompas, the priests of the Tompa religion, for writing their beliefs in the scriptures. The Tompa religion, which emerged from the ancient culture of the Naxi people of northwest China, mainly at Lijiang, culminated in an ascension to power in the Eleventh Century, but then declined and was near-dead by the time of economic reform and opening-up after 1978.

In the mid-1990s, the Lijiang local government decided to use Tompa characters as a means of developing tourism and trade in the area. The policy has dramatically given Tompa characters a great cultural impact. This article focuses on how the meanings and roles of Tompa characters have changed in political, economic and cultural context up the present day.


Article 2

Architecture and Furniture Design in Modern Japan: The Case of Kogure Joichi

Sarah Teasley

Keywords
Kogure Joichi, Taisho Japan, Woodworking, Furniture and Architecture, Housing Improvement, Architectural Institute, Publishing Culture

Abstract
Japanese furniture designer Kogure Joichi’s comprehensive suggestions for the architecture, interiors and furnishings of the modern urban middle-class home subsumed architectural and design practice into the ideological creation of a total living environment. Trained as an architect, Kogure helped pioneer Japan’s western-style furniture industry in the 1910s, before broadening his scope to include housing design and lifestyle reform around 1920. Kogure used all available media to disseminate the message that improved domestic space was the key to modern life, where ‘improvement’ meant the replacement of ‘traditional’ tatami with ‘modern’ chairs and hard floors in a new house or renovated vernacular dwelling. Thus, Kogure valued furniture and dwelling spaces as tools enabling a new way of living and being. However, as a woodworking specialist, his activities in architectural circles were confined to suggestions for furniture refom.

This paper interprets Kogure’s writings and designs against architectural culture and vernacular domestic space in 1910s and 1920s Japan. It considers Kogure’s use of furniture in the daily life improvement movement, and proposes that while his design practice encompassed architecture, interior design and furniture design, his confinement to the domestic sphere reflects a division between architects, who claimed public buildings as the most visible stage for national modernity while also publishing house designs, and designers and social reformers, who concentrated on the home. Finally, it examines Kogure’s understanding of the necessity of involve women – not usually included in architectural and design discourse – in the creation of the home as a comprehensive living environment, and analyzes his use of mass media to this end.


Book Reviews

Kawahata Naomichi: Hara Hiromu to Bokutachi no shin kappan-jutsu (Hara Hiromu and Our New Printing Techniques) / reviewed by Iguchi Toshino
Alison J. Clarke, Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America / reviewed by Omoya Shinsuke


Noise

Metamorphosis of the Design Dialogue / Leimei Julia Chiu

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts


Constitution and Bylaws


Notes on Contributors

Design History, Issue 1, 2003

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Contents

Editorial
On the Publication of Design History / Nakayama Shuichi

Articles
The Representation of National Identity: Hungarian Poster, 1885-1930 / Iguchi Toshino
In the Periphery of “Art Manufacture”: The Encouragement of Arts and the School of Design in Mid-Nineteenth Century Manchester / Suga Yasuko
Building on the Past, Looking to the Future: Design History in the Twenty First Century / Jonathan M. Woodham

Book Reviews
Victor Margolin, The Politics of the Artificial / reviewed by Sarah Teasley
Kashiwagi Hiroshi, Modan dezain hihan (Modern Design Critique) / reviewed by Monden Sonoko

Noise
Playing between Two Points East and West / Minami Takeshi

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

Constitution and Bylaws

Notes on Contributors

How to Order Your Back Issues 
 
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