My recent acquisition, "Lotus" by Santana

Lotus is a 1974 live LP album by the band Santana, recorded in Osaka, Japan in July 1973. The Welcome album recording sessions were completed shortly before this concert, and that album was later released in November. Lotus was originally released in 1974 as a triple vinyl LP in Japan only. This version of the album was later released internationally. 

This amazingly complex and beautiful LP is designed by the leading Japanese designer Tadanori Yokoo. 

Here, here, and here, you can read my past posts about Tadanori.

 

Tadanori Yokoo in Neshan magazine

The leading Iranian graphic design magazine Neshan just published the essay I wrote about Tadanori Yokoo, which was originally published in IDEA, Japanese design magazine.

Nick Rhodes and I

Before I got the actual issue of IDEA Magazine I wrote in my blog post that "I was surprised and honored when Tadanori Yokoo recently asked me to write an essay about him for the new issue
of IDEA magazine."

Now when I have the issue in my hands I'm even more honored because, besides asking me
to write an essay, Tadanori also asked Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran.

It is quite a big honor.

Tadanori Yokoo Essay

I was surprised and honored when Tadanori Yokoo recently asked me to write an essay about him for the new issue of IDEA magazine, one of the most respectable graphic design magazines in the world. The new issue is titled Recent Works of Tadanori Yokoo Since 2010.

For those of you who are not very familiar with graphic design, Tadanori Yokoo and Milton Glaser

are the most recognized and celebrated designers of our time. 

Interview with Japanese Heaps Magazine about Tadanori Yokoo.

From new Japanese Heaps Magazine.
Interview by Risa Akita.
Photos by: Sako Hirano
Check it out here.