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TAKEO is actively involved in publications concerning paper and design culture/history.

TAKEO PAPER SHOW

  • PACKAGING—Function and Laughter
  • Supervision: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Curation and art direction: Kenya Hara + Hara Design Institute, Nippon Design Center
  • Publisher: Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.
  • Sale by: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha
  • Published: October 13th, 2023

  • Standard edition:
    Price: 4,400 yen (including tax)
    Format: B5 variant format, 320 pages, Swiss binding (sebiraki binding)
    ISBN: 9784568105711
    Available for purchase at: takeopaper.com

  • Special edition:
    Price: 25,000 yen (including tax)
    Format: Double Swiss binding, a special specification with two book bodies having their endpapers joined together, requiring a cut along a line of perforations to open.
  • takeo paper show 2018 "precision"
  • Supervision: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Planning and art direction: Yoshihisa Tanaka
  • Planning cooperation: Hideyuki Nakayama
  • Publisher: TAKEO Co., Ltd
  • Distributer: HeHe
  • Published: October 5th, 2018
  • Price: 2,800 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5 variant/272 pages/silkscreen printing on all edges
  • ISBN: 9784908062247
  • SUBTLE
  • Editing: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Direction: Kenya Hara + Nippon Design Center Hara Design Institute
  • Publisher: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Published: May 24th, 2014
  • Price: 3,600 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5 variant/282 pages
  • ISBN: 9784907942007
  • HON (Books)
  • TAKEO PAPER SHOW 2011
  • Editing: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Editorial supervision: TAKEO Paper Show Committee (Kenya Hara, Kei Matsushita, Kohei Nishiyama, TAKEO Co., Ltd.)
  • Publisher: Heibonsha
  • Published: 2011
  • Price: 3,800 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5 variant/472 pages
  • ISBN: 9784582281040
  • proto-
  • Editing: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Direction: Nobuhiro Yamaguchi, Shinichiro Ogata, Shunji Yamanaka
  • Publisher: The Mainichi Newspapers
  • Published: 2010
  • Price: 3,200 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5 variant/192 pages
  • ISBN: 9784620606545
  • SUPER HEADS’
  • TAKEO PAPER SHOW 2009
  • Editing: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Direction: Kenya Hara
  • Publisher: Asahi Shimbun Publications
  • Published: 2009
  • Price: 3,600 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5 variant/296 pages
  • ISBN: 9784022506634
  • PAPER SHOW by SCHOOL OF DESIGN
  • Production: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Direction, writing: SCHOOL OF DESIGN (Masayoshi Kodaira, Naomi Hirabayashi, Manabu Mizuno, Eiji Yamada)
  • Publisher: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha
  • Published: 2009
  • Price: 2,800 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5 variant/220 pages
  • ISBN: 9784568503852
  • PAPER SHOW
  • Author: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Direction: Masayoshi Kodaira, Naomi Hirabayashi, Manabu Mizuno
  • Publisher: The Mainichi Newspapers
  • Published: 2008
  • Price: 4,000 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5 variant/300 pages
  • ISBN: 9784620606309
  • UNBALANCE/BALANCE
  • Editing: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Direction: Kan Akita, Akita Design Kan
  • Publisher: Heibonsha
  • Published: 2007
  • Price: 3,000 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5 variant/128 pages
  • ISBN: 9784582281033
  • +skill
  • Editing: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Direction: Kei Matsushita, Kei Matsushita Design Room
  • Publisher: Heibonsha
  • Published: 2006
  • Price: 2,500 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5 variant/136 pages
  • ISBN: 9784582281026
  • HAPTIC
  • Editing: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Direction: Kenya Hara
  • Publisher: Asahi Shimbun Publications
  • Published: 2004
  • Price: 3,800 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5 variant/248 pages
  • ISBN: 9784022579317
  • FILING
  • Editing: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Direction: Makoto Orisaki, Kenya Hara + Nippon Design Center Hara Design Institute
  • Publisher: Sendenkaigi
  • Published: 2005
  • Price: 3,333 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5/185 pages
  • ISBN: 9784883351122
  • COST : VALUE
  • Editing: Sendenkaigi
  • Direction, jacket: Katsuhiro Kinoshita
  • Editorial planning, editorial cooperation TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Publisher: Sendenkaigi
  • Published: 2003
  • Price: 2,400 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5/144 pages
  • ISBN: 9784883350932
  • RE DESIGN
  • Editing: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Direction: Kenya Hara
  • Editorial planning, editorial cooperation TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Publisher: Asahi Shimbun
  • Published: 2000
  • Price: 3,000 yen (before tax)
  • Format: A5/239 pages
  • ISBN: 978402257495X

Anniversaries & other projects

  • Constructive Posters of the 20th Century
  • Exhibition planning / catalog editing: Tama Art University, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Culture Division of Nikkei Inc.
  • Catalog supervision: Ichiro Saga (Tama Art University)
  • Art Direction: Yasuhiro Sawada (Tama Art University)
  • Book Design: Masahiko Nagasawa
  • Publisher: Nikkei Inc.
  • Published: 2021
  • Price: 2,970 yen (tax included)
  • Format: A5/304 pages/PUR binding
  • ISBN: 9784907243135
  • Portrait of a Graphic Designer
  • Editorial planning, Editing/Design: Keiko Hirano
  • Production: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Publisher: Shinchosha
  • Published: 2009
  • Price: 3,200 yen (before tax)
  • Format: A5, boxed/407 pages
  • ISBN: 9784103203216
  • Constructive Posters
  • Bauhaus to Swiss Style
  • Author: Tama Art University Poster Collaborative Research Group
  • Publisher: Chuo Koron Bijutsu Shuppan
  • Published: 2001
  • Price: 5,800 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5/283 pages
  • ISBN: 4805504137
  • Paper and Design
  • 50 Years of Takeo “Fine Papers”
  • A Publication Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the foundation of Takeo Co., Ltd.
  • Production: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Direction: Nippon Design Center Inc.
  • Publisher: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Published: 2000
  • Price: Softcover 1,000 yen (before tax) /Hardcover 5,000 yen (before tax)
  • Format: B5 variant/152 pages
  • No longer available
  • Illustrations of Trade and Crafts of the East and West
  • A Publication Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the foundation of Takeo Co., Ltd.
  • Publisher: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Published: 1990
  • Format: A4 variant, boxed/7 volumes (Part 1: Japanese binding: 4 volumes + Softcover 1 volume in case, Part 2: Hardcover 2 volumes)
  • Availability: Not for sale
  • HANDMADE PAPERS OF THE WORLD
  • The 80th Anniversary of the Foundation
    of Takeo co.,Ltd.
  • Publisher: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Published: 1979
  • Format: A4 variant/2 volumes/Main volume: 183 pages
  • Availability: Not for sale
  • Japanese Handmade Papers
  • A Publication Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the foundation of TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Editing: TAKEO Yoshiten plannning office
  • Publisher: Takeo Paper Co., Ltd.
  • Published: 1969
  • Price: 35,000 yen
  • Format: A3 variant in case/86 pages
  • No longer available

TAKEO Prize

  • The 5th TAKEO Prize collection of prizewinning design history papers and
  • design criticism
  • Editing/Design: Nippon Design Center Inc.
  • Publisher: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Published: 2006
  • Price: 500 yen (tax incl.)
  • Format: A5/112 pages
  • No longer available
  • The 4th TAKEO Prize collection of prizewinning design history papers and
  • design criticism
  • Editing/Design: Nippon Design Center Inc.
  • Publisher: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Published: 2005
  • Price: 500 yen (tax incl.)
  • Format: A5/120 pages
  • No longer available
  • The 3rd TAKEO Prize collection of
  • prizewinning design history papers
  • Editing/Design: Nippon Design Center Inc.
  • Publisher: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Published: 2004
  • Price: 500 yen (tax incl.)
  • Format: A5/103 pages
  • No longer available
  • The 2nd TAKEO Prize collection of
  • prizewinning design history papers
  • Editing/Design: Nippon Design Center Inc. Communication Design Laboratory/Hara Design Institute
  • Publisher: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Published: 2003
  • Price: 500 yen (tax incl.)
  • Format: A5/103 pages
  • No longer available
  • The 1st TAKEO Prize collection of
  • prizewinning design history papers
  • Editing/Design: Nippon Design Center Inc. Communication Design Laboratory/Hara Design Institute
  • Publisher: TAKEO Co., Ltd.
  • Published: 2002
  • Price: 500 yen (tax incl.)
  • Format: A5/90 pages
  • No longer available

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