"Special Issue on the Work of Kurtz & Friends." Kurtz commercial animation company created the ubiquitous Chevron Oil dinosaur spots of the seventies and won numerous industry awards over the decades. This monograph showcases 43 of their best TV commercials with credits, voice-over/dialogue transcript, and as many as 20 frames, plus enlargements of highlighted frames. Introduction and "Some random thoughts on film design" by Kurtz as well as photos of Kurtz & Friends and Kurtz in Japan. Text in both English and Japanese.
For a period during 1980s, the Tokyo Designers Gakuin College would invite famous foreign artists to lecture and meet with their students. The school sometimes held exhibitions of the artist's work and published catalogues of the exhibitions.