Direction: Idea
Design: Kensaku Kato, Seigo Kitaoka (LABORATORIES)
Cooperation: Jujiro Maki
Photo: Yohey Goto

【Contributors 】

Yusuke Akai
Hirofumi Abe
Shohei Iida
Tadashi Ueda
Toru Kase
Wataru Kobara
Shun Sasaki
Kenta Shibano
Shunsuke Sugiyama
Tezzo Suzuki
Saki Souda
Mahaya Takara
Kentaro Nakamura
Yuto Hama
Takuya Hirano
Jujiro Maki
Ryu Mieno
Ryuto Miyake
Takahiro Yasuda
Katsunobu Yoshida
Hideki Yoshimatsu (hydekick)

Symposium Part 1: Internet and graphic designer
Speaker: Toru Kase, Shunsuke Sugiyama, Takahiro Yasuda, Hideki Yoshimatsu (hydekick)
Moderator: Barbora

Symposium Part 2: graphic designers in the 2010s
Speaker: Shohei Iida, Wataru Kobara, Saki Souda, Yuto Hama, Takuya Hirano
Moderator: Daijiro Ohara

Symposium Part 3: On Japanese letters and typography
Speaker: Shun Sasaki, Tezzo Suzuki, Jujiro Maki, Kazuhiro Yamada, Katsunobu Yoshida
Moderator: Dainippon Type Organization, Idea

Future of Collaboration and Sympathy
Interview: Yusuke Akai, Kentaro Nakamura, Ryu Mieno

Personal Basis: Familiarity in Japanese Graphic Design
Text: Ryan Hageman (Gurafiku)
Translation: Ayano Atsumi

Contributors Profile
List of works

Report of Mobile Talk
Text: Tetsuya Goto, Saki Ho
Translation: Duncan Brotherton
Design: Milkxhake (Javin Mo, Saki Ho)

With infrastructure on the Internet, such as LCC and Airbnb, travel is no longer anything special. Communities no longer merely strike root in a certain area; the net is making them more fluid. In this age of movement, Mobile Talk is an attempt at weaving a fluid community together. It’s a (mobile) talk event making the rounds of Asia’s continuously evolving cities, and is planned and organized by the creative platform OOO Projects in Osaka and Hong Kong’s design studio Milkxhake, previously in charge of IDEA’s Yellow Pages series.
As a kick off, Mobile Talk was held in three East Asian cities in 2016: Osaka, Hong Kong and Taipei. The theme was #independent/#collective, and designers, artists, curators and editors—working independently, yet collectively active in projects—gathered to share their work.
We selected each venue based on the fact it was run by local creators themselves. Mobile Talk is not a transient community; our aim is to create actual spaces for our multi-located lives.
You’ll find a compressed introduction of the three Mobile Talk events and a file of items from guests in this article.

Typographic Composition [preview]
Text: Yoshihisa Shirai
Supplementary note: Jun-ichiro Khori
Analysis of typography: Akira Uchida
Editing: Kiyonori Muroga
Design: Shirai Design Studio (Yoshihisa Shirai, Yuichi Kato, Takumi Egawa)
Notes: Pagination for this article is independent and page numbers are separate from preceding and following articles.

Kurt Hauert: a pillar of the legendary Basel School
Text: Helmut Schmid
Translation: Kiyomi Yamada
Design: Helmut Schmid, Nicole Schmid

Graphic designer, educator and sensitive visual artist, Kurt Hauert is a pillar of the legendary Basel School.

Eugen Nerdinger and Lisa Beck: The type designers/graphic designers/design teachers that graphic design history forgot
Text and Design: Ian Lynam
Translation: Mariko Oki
Assistance: Renna Okubo, Hikari Otomo, Toshinobu Nagata

This essay is a project that is both 11 years in the making and two months in the making. I first discovered a book by German designers Eugen Nerdinger and Lisa Beck in 2002 in Ed Fella’s office library at CalArts in Valencia, California. Ed was verbally dismissive of it, but he had it displayed prominently on his bookshelf. This book entranced me with its detail, loving craftsmanship, and fine printing. Over the next decade plus, I would here and there casually pick up books by these authors when I came across them in bookshops in rural Germany or online.

Hiroshi Nishino and his time: On Hiroshi Nishino: Philosophy and Design
Text: Kiyonori Muroga
Deisgn: Shirai Design Studio

Division of the Photography and Images
Part 1: Kenta Kobayashi Requirement of the Photography
Text: Kohei Oyama

161 Language Without Place
Part 2: An Alphabetical Void
Text and Image: Scott Joseph
Translation: Takamitsu Yamamoto

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Loewe Craft Prize
Mois du graphisme d’Echirolles 2016 – Made in Japan