Designers in Seoul
Designers in Tokyo
Designers in Taipei
Column Four
Editor, writer, educator. He has worked on publication and projects on graphic design, typography, and visual culture. He recently co-directed “Modes and Characters: Poetics of Graphic Design” (21_21 DESIGN SIGHT). Editor-in-chief of The Graphic Design Review (JAGDA). Former editor-in-chief of IDEA magazine.
In Poland after World War II, many designers were active in creating graphic symbols. Due to specific political conditions, these projects could be much more free and artistic than in the West. Besides the Polish poster, it is the graphic symbol that is particularly noteworthy when it comes to design in Poland.
In Poland, design is still in the development phase and there is currently no one specific dominant style characteristic only of our country. Until recently, we were trying to design correctly, and now we are looking at how to design incorrectly.
The typsetting is unique. The ability to use hiragana, katakana, kanji, and alphanumeric characters in both vertical and horizontal writing is, we feel, unique in Japanese design culture.
There are three different reading directions for typeset Japanese!