March / April 2003
Cover Image: Portrait of Taku Satoh by Kazumi Kurigami
In Issue 344 of Graphis magazine, you'll find the following stories: Hideki Nakajima’s campaign for Issey Miyake, by Noriko Kawakami; Fabien Baron: One Man Renaissance-Part I, by Ken Coupland; Springer & Jacoby: Simplicity in a Complex World, by Imke Lode; Mark Power: The Power of an Idea, by Lyle Rexer; Taku Satoh: The Invisible Designer, by Maggie Kinser Hohle; American Folk Museum: A Building of Firsts, by Susanna Sirefman; Folk Photography, by Luc Sante; and Student Work: Selection from Graphis New Talent Design Annual 2002.
CONTENTS
6 Contributors
12 Patriot Games By Hugh Aldersey-Williams
13 Dan Reisinger
16 Hideki Nakajima's campaign for Issey Miyake By Noriko Kawakami
The iconic fashion designer handed over his image-making to creative director Naoki Takizawa who collaborated with an inventive roster of designers. Hideki Nakajima is one of them--him too picks ingenious creators for an ad campaign.
20 Fabien Baron: One Man Renaissance-Part I By Ken Coupland
The legendary talent orchestrates magazine makeovers, brand resuscitation, photo shoots, advertising, and packaging with panache. (And, that's just Part 1. A later Graphis interview will focus on Baron's furniture, products and interiors).
46 Springer & Jacoby: Simplicity in a Complex World By Imke Lode
The agency's American-inspired corporate culture successfully dovetails with German work ethics. They create award-winning, dead-pan funny advertising with a certain hanseatic self-confidence.
60 Mark Power: The Power of an Idea By Lyle Rexer
Time, memory, space and spectacle--and everything in between. The London-based photographer's well-edited photo sequences assemble decisive moments into unfolding annals. Let us be captured by his stories.
72 Taku Satoh: The Invisible Designer By Maggie Kinser Hohle
Satoh's design philosophy consist of avoiding excess. His packagings reveal a sense of design that is meaningful rather than just newer. Invisible design lets the "emancipated" consumer replace products within his own lifestyle and make it his.
96 American Folk Museum: A Building of Firsts By Susanna Sirefman
The American Folk Art Museum, built by the celebrated architects Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, is the first new museum built in Manhattan since 1966. "Direct, authentic and freeing" are words that describe both the building and its collection.
106 Folk Photography By Luc Sante
Author Sante addresses the genre of vernacular photo-postcard of the early 20th century.
110 Student Work
Selection from Graphis New Talent Design Annual 2002
112 I am Iman Reviewed by John D. Berry
Keith Tyson's Head to Hand Reviewed By Ken Coupland
113 Illustration Gallery