«The Daily Heller», Jennifer Morla's Life In Design, (interview), by Steven Heller, «Print» magazine, August 27, 2018
(image: Jennifer Morla, Save Our Earth, [«Celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Earth Day by making every day Earth Day.»], 1995. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. Letterform Archive, San Francisco, CA]
“Ayumi Ōhashi (b. 1940) — née Kumiko Ōhashi — grew up in Mie Prefecture and moved to Tokyo to attend prestigious Tama Art University. A pupil of the cartoon illustrator Jun Kawahara, Ōhashi started to experiment with crayon pastels to draw young men in stylish clothing. After showing her work to Shōsuke Ishizu at VAN Jacket, Ōhashi contributed to Men’s Club for several issues under her real name Kumiko Ōhashi.”
“Her big break, however, came in 1964 when she was tapped to draw the cover each week of new tabloid for young men Heibon Punch. In consultation with the editors at Punch, Ōhashi decided to go with the gender-neutral “Ayumi” as a pen name.”
“Ōhashi changed her signature style in the late 1960s but continued to make some of the most memorable illustrations in the Japanese magazine market. She drew the covers of underground magazine Takarajima, even parodying her early Punch work with a post-hippie mustached update.”
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