IDEA magazine #400

IDEA is a quarterly magazine published in Tokyo, Japan that focuses on international graphic design, graphic art, and typography.

In this issue: Celebrating 70 years of publishing and 400 issues

The special feature in this issue introduces domestic graphic design-related archives, including ongoing examples. Although the nature and scale of the materials vary, such as poster archives, archives of individual designers, archives of exhibition announcements, and archives of Japanese typography-related materials, we hope that this will be an opportunity to reconsider design preservation records as a familiar issue through the voices of people actually involved in the practice of archiving. In the second half of the special feature, there are contributions and interviews that will give a broader understanding of archives. Topics that will lead to future discussions include the circumstances of archives both domestically and internationally used in the field of historical research, how to perceive archives/archival things in the information society, and the value of paper media as archives. 

Tokyo, Japan; 220mm x 300mm; 172 pages