“IDEA OCUMENT” is compilation book series that was reprinted an articles published in the idea magazine.In this book, we selected thirty articles about Japanese typefaces and typography.

NOTE: All text in Japanese unless otherwise noted.

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“Typography Review”（written in both Japanese and English）

Idea No・301-309 (November2003-March 2005), Idea No・311-314 (July,2005-January,2006)

vol. 1 Jiro Katashio “Shine! The Typefaces of the New Millennium”

vol. 2 Baumann & Baumann “Rotis in Rotis”

vol. 3 Gerd Baumann “Rotis in Rotis 2”

vol. 4 Kinichi Imada “Succeeding the History of Japanese Typefaces”

vol. 5 Mitsuo Kono “The meaning of Stanley Morison today”

vol. 6 Jiro Katashio “Concern about future typefaces without roots”

vol. 7 Masahiko Kimura “Producing the ‘Voice’ of an Organization”

vol. 8 Mayumi Sakamoto “Typefaces and gender difference (as an attribute of typefaces)”

vol. 9 Taro Yamamoto “Thinking about Modernity in Typography”

vol. 10 Taro Yamamoto “The Origins and Historical Changes of the Shueitai Typeface”

vol.11 Minoru Niijima “Typography as a part of the Fundamental Studies”

vol.12 Yusaku Terayama “The Node of Modern Visual Language”

Shueitai: Revival of the Classic Typeface

Idea No. 345 (March 2011)

Kinichi Imada “Typeface design by Kinichi Imada  Japanese & Chinese Characters”

Idea No. 349 (November 2011)

Digital typeface project based on Saga-bon by Yasuhito Nagahara & Osamu Torinoumi

Idea No. 347 (July 2011)

Lettering Mannerism: Lettering, Logotype and Typeface in the 60s & 70s in Japan

Idea No. 356 (January 2013)

Association and Movement  / Research and Proposal  / Practice and Letterform  /  New Typefaces   / Collected Essays

Hirokazu Mukai “The History of Typos”

Idea No. 329 (July 2008)

Hiroshi Komiyama “The current state and future of Japanese Gothic Typefaces”

Idea No. 327 (March 2008)

“Typography with love, uniqueness and affluence” 

Talk Session: Nobuo Nakagaki, Mitsuo Fukawa, Hirokazu Mukai  

Idea No. 313 (November 2005)

Ideas of VISUAL DESIGN LABORATORY INC.: For the contemporary Japanese Display Types

Idea No. 336 (September 2009)

Akira Uchida “A Cultural History of Japanese Typefaces” 

Idea No. 356 (January 2013)- Idea No. 359 (July 2013)

Vol. 1 “A Thought about ‘A Thought on Modern and Contemporary Book DesignⅠ'”

Vol. 2 “Scene with Gothic-tai”

Vol. 3 “The typefaces that express”

Vol. 4 “Typesetting Japanese Mixed with Latin Alphabet”

Shin Sobue “Interview with Shin Sobue”

Idea No. 348 (September 2011)

Akira Uchida “For a coming research on Manga Typography”

Idea No. 336 (September 2009)

Books on typography from 34 reading lists

Idea No. 343 (November 2010)

Kohei Sugiura / Nobuo Nakagaki / Hiroshi Komiyama / Kei Mori / Tsuyokatsu Kudo / Shukuro Habara

Bunpei Yorifuji / Yasuhito Nagahara / Katsumi Asaba / Osamu Torinoumi / Akira Sasaki / Shin Sobue

Hitoshi Suzuki / Kazunari Hattori / Fumio Tachibana / Yukimasa Matsuda / Hirokazu Mukai

Kouga Hirano / Kaoru Kasai / Yuri Suyama / Shin Akiyama / Akira Kobayashi / Tatsuya Ariyama

Masao Takaoka / Taro Yamamoto / Junichi Kusaka / Yoshihisa Shirai / Nobuhiro Yamaguchi

Kenya Hara / Hitoshi Koizumi / Minoru Niijima / So Hashizume / Yusaku Terayama / Jiro Katashio

Shin Sobue “Comparison Chart of Hiragana Characters for body”

Idea No. 347 (July 2011)