Paperback: 241 pages
Publisher: Seibundo Shinkosha
Language: Japanese / English
Product Dimensions: 29.4 x 22.4 x 1.4 cm
Release Date: 2002
Price: sold
a very clean copy overall, with occasional faint age-related spotting near the fore edge and only very slight bumping to the corners.
Idea No. 291 is a highly unique issue. Within its 16-page feature on Studio Build, four pages are dedicated entirely to a sticker sheet designed specifically for Idea magazine.
Also included is a special bilingual (Japanese/English) interview with Tadanori Yokoo on Ikko Tanaka, conducted shortly after Tanaka’s passing.
Build; IDEA Special Sticker Project
sticker for this issues cover page made by Build (ex designers republic).
Cover Design: Build
Design studio Bild was founded by Michael C Place in 2001. Build is Michael C. Place and sometimes Nicola J. Place. Michael born in North Yorkshire, England in 1969. He graduated from Newcastle College in 1990 and then he went on to work at Bite It!, London with Trevor Jackson working on mainly record covers. He started work at The Designers Republic from 1992 to 2000. Now build specialises mainly in design for print.
Special features: Solid Modernity; the Kitchen (U.K.), 2GD (Denmark), Base (Belgium, NY, Spain) / Memorial article on Ikko Tanaka; Interview with Tadanori Yokoo about his memories of Ikko Tanaka. / Iain Cadby Works of Iain Cadby (U.K.) / Cosmo Head Anno’s Cosmic Tour; Drawings of Genta Kosumi / New Virus Fonts Previews and North Korea Project / Build; IDEA Special Sticker Project / Serials: Kyoichi Tsuzuki -When Pig Design vol.13 / Bound-in poster by Jonathan Barnbrook
Solid Modernity; the Kitchen (U.K.), 2GD (Denmark), Base (Belgium, NY, Spain)
we introduce three design agencies; the Kitchen (U.K.), 2GD (Denmark), Base (Belgium, NY, Spain) ; and their newest works over 32 pages.