Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Seibundo Shinkosha
Language: Japanese
Product Dimensions: 29.4 x 22.4 cm
Release Date: 2012
Price: sold
Special Feature: VIDEO GAME GRAPHIC
NAMCO BANDAI Games, CAPCOM, SEGA, World of Video Game Fonts, Adventure of Little Wing Pinball
World of Video Game Fonts
Books and magazines may contain fixed information, yet their value continues to shift over time.
Founded in 1953 with the aim of presenting international graphic art and typography from Japan to the world, IDEA magazine has fulfilled this role for more than seventy years.
From today’s perspective, however, one of the most emblematic issues in the history of IDEA is not devoted to Swiss typography, but rather to issue 352, which focuses on the graphics and typefaces of Japanese video games from the late 1970s through the early 2000s.
In the end, it is precisely this issue, which communicates Japanese culture itself, that has come to represent the kind of “idea” the world now seeks.
Special Feature: VIDEO GAME GRAPHIC
Cover Design: Kentaro “ANI” Fujimoto
Born in Obihiro, Hokkaido in 1973.
Formed ‘Nendo Graphixxx’ in 1993 while attending the Department of Design at Nihon Kogakuin College.
After graduating, I worked in the design production SPICE Inc. while setting up an indie T-shirt brand. I’m experienced as an art director/designer of ‘teleparc’ Japanese first web magazine project by Fujitsu Limited and art director/designer of MTV Japan. I’ve worked as a freelance designer since 2003 and last year relocated to Obihiro, Hokkaido to contribute to the local community with my designs.
NAMCO BANDAI Games
Interview with Designers; Hiroshi Ono, Minoru Sahida (NAMCO BANDAI Games)