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From the kitsch cuteness of the ubiquitous Hello Kitty to the cult of manga and anime, Japanese design has long paved the way for the West to follow. Graphic Japan goes beyond this well-known territory to reveal the myriad styles of design produced in Japan today, from packaging to posters, typography to new media.
Contemporary Japanese graphic design is a unique collision of traditional cultural influences and a focused thrust towards modernization on global terms. No other country has found itself modernized so quickly while retaining such a distinct way of life, and the resulting graphic innovation enthralls the world. Divided into distinct sections, the book reflects the marriage of tradition and hyper-modernity that typifies Japanese design. Essays on today?s innovators are beautifully printed in a simple, elegant manner typical of traditional Japanese work, while visual matter is boldly, colorfully printed, reflecting the brash, global commerciality of much new material.
Japanese design embodies the holy grail of creative freedom and commercial success?this book is an inspirational ?must? for designers in the West.
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it's a koo coffe table book.......2005-08-16
this is a nice book to have on the coffee table for browsing. it has nice quality images. I actually thought the book be a lil bigger though. it's nice and small to carry around with you. It's also very informative--- a window into the japanese graphic world.
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- Well done compilation of recent graphic representation in Japan
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JPG 2: Japan Graphics
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ASIN: 8496540146
Release Date: 2006-12-01 |
Product Description
Volume two of JPG, Japan Graphics, is a comprehensive survey of contemporary Japanese graphic design and illustration. The changes in Japanese graphic design after the first volume have proved to be far beyond our imagination. Instead of "more copies, higher resolution, to a wider audience," there is a greater focus on individual and original works. JPG 2 brings together over 20 design teams, showcasing the evolution of teams from the first JPG as well as showcasing new projects, new teams, and the best contemporary design talents. Works by Amane Murakami, Buddha Productions, Dainippon Type Organization, Enlightenment, Hideki Inaba, Higraph, keitarrow, Loworks, Keigo Mohri, Namaiki, Shinji Shimada, Ryuh Tomoaki, Sunday-Vision, Power Graphixx, Takora, Taku Anekawa, TGB design, Tsuyoshi Kusano, Tsuyoshi Hirooka, wabisabi, iseneehihinee.The book is divided into 13 chapters: Photo + graphics, Imaginary landscapes, Printed matter, Customize on the product, Re-product design, Order made, Talking graphics, Portrait, Activism, Fake analog, Digital error, Super fine lines and Digital/manual interaction.
Customer Reviews:
Well done compilation of recent graphic representation in Japan.......2007-05-06
Japan Graphics 2 (or JPG2) is a handsomely produced survey of contemporary graphic design in Japan over the last four years. The general collection of work has a very urban character. It is apparent that many of the designers choose to interpret the world around them while others tend to re-create the world through their work. The juxtapositions are quite strong with works of pure fantasy nicely complementing or contradicting super-real representations.
The work spans a variety of concepts and is typically depicted as a 2D work complemented by photos showing the work in its original installed configuration, whether in a gallery or on an athletic shoe. Concepts such as 'Imaginary Landscapes', 'Talking Graphics', 'Portait', 'Fake Analog' and 'Digital/Manual Interaction' are represented through the work of twenty-one Japanese designers with few tending to specialize in any one category. The overlaps are interesting, with common threads apparent across the various topics.
The techniques are as varied as the concepts with an obvious slant towards digital processes. Work that appears manually-created is oftentimes done so digitally. In this context, the manual creation acquires somewhat of a special quality. This translates directly to the actual book itself. The cover has a raised plaque that appears to be laser cut wood, although upon closer examination I began to question that. The machine-produced pattern over the grain almost lends a plastic feel to the piece. So which is it? The world may never know.
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Definitive catalogue of Japanese heraldic crests featuring almost unlimited variety of plant, animal, bird, and geometric forms — everything from "wild goose" to "folding fan" to "mountain and mist," each with dozens of variations. 4,260 illustrations. "The 4,260 marvelous heraldic emblems...are delicate, interesting, and perfect." — Lady's Circle Needlework.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book.......2007-08-05
I bought the book for my son and he loved everything about it. The illustrations are teriffic.
Comprehensive and logically organized.......2006-01-07
Supposedly, there are about 2,000 Japanese family crests, with origins that reach back more than a millenium. And while I can't say whether this book contains all two thousand, it's nevertheless pretty comprehensive. They're presented in columns of black images--each image about 2" in diameter--and grouped by theme (e.g., crests depicting one cherry blossom, then crests based on 2 blossoms, then crests based on 3 blossoms, etc.).
Like other Dover art books, this one is primarily for artists and designers, rather than for students of history/culture. (I used these images for stencilling, during an Anglo-Japanese makeover of our 1870s-era house--and discovered that "chinoiserie" abounds, but "japanesque" is rare. This book became part of an invaluable, and small, set of resources.)
Fantastic for Graphic Design Inspiration.......2003-04-14
Page, after page, after page of great designs.
Not something you can use for research, but it you are looking for inspiration, this is a book for you. I started putting yellow post-its on the designs I wanted to use (quilting, cross-stitch, stained glass), but I soon gave up when I realized that I was marking almost every page.
This is one of those rare design books that is well worth the money.
Well worth the price..........2003-01-06
I've lusted after this book ever since I saw it in the library years ago. Unfortunately, I couldn't remember the name (I should've stolen it then!). So what a delight to finally rediscover it. The images in this book have haunted me, and defied my attempts to recreate even a few of them from memory. There are more permutations on each motif than one can possibly think of. An endless wealth of source material for logos, symbols, backgrounds, graphics. This book is a must-have for any designer interested in or influenced by Japanese design!
Japanese Motifs.......2002-02-28
So far the only Ra-Mon book that I have found with my family Crest. For me it is worth the money.
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Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyôshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in which the genre was produced and consumed with three annotated translations of works by major author-artist Santô Kyôden (1761-1816) that closely reproduce the experience of encountering the originals, Adam Kern offers a sustained close reading of the vibrant popular imagination of the mid-Edo period. The kibyôshi, Kern argues, became an influential form of political satire that seemed poised to transform the uniquely Edoesque brand of urban commoner culture into something more, perhaps even a national culture, until the shogunal government intervened.
Based on extensive research using primary sources in their original Edo editions, the volume is copiously illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections. It serves as an introduction not only to the kibyôshi but also to the genre's readers and critics, narratological conventions, modes of visuality, format, and relationship to the modern Japanese comicbook (manga) and to the popular literature and wit of Edo. Filled with graphic puns and caricatures, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the more experienced student of Japanese cultural history.
Customer Reviews:
A good effort but not an easy read.......2007-07-12
A scholarly book on the pre-cursor of present-day Japanese manga. Hey, if it's from the Harvard East Asian Center, you can't expect a leisure reading of a Time-Life edition on the topic. A well-researched book based on numerous primary Japanese sources, it weighs almost five pounds. Many interesting woodblock prints that shed lights on the daily living of the Edo period. Almost a five stars effort - but the annotations of the three primary works are located separately from the pictorial prints, which makes it awfully difficult to go back and forth between the pictures and the annotations, especially when the book weighs as much as it does. Otherwise, a pioneer work on the subject for which Mr. Kern should be well applauded.
An excetpional art book.......2007-05-06
This is a rare and comprehensive look into the real orgins of comics in Japan. This long overdue study is magnificently illustrated and annotated with brilliant essays on the history of Kibyoshibon. Calling these proto-comics manga is a bit of a stretch, but then kibyoshibon were always a medium that invited exaggeration.
A RARE LOOK AT A UNIQUE LITERARY FORM.......2007-02-03
With this richly illustrated (some 200 images) comprehensive volume readers are introduced to unique books that flourished during Japan's Edo period - the kibyoshi. While the kibyoshi format would lead one to believe it was a children's comic book, it was in actuality "possessed of a sophisticated if entertaining content, dabbling often in social satire and occasionally in political satire."
The kibyoshi, the author states, is the earliest comicbook for an adult audience in Japan. And, its audience was, of course, mostly male , educated, often merchants and artisans. It is at times compared to the modern Japanese comicbook, manga, a comparison explored by the author.
We are all well familiar with the bromide one picture is worth a thousand words, such is certainly the case in this fascinating volume. Woodblocks are amazingly detailed, such as Fig 4.22 which refers to the competition between fire brigades known for their high ladder acrobatics. It is said that members of one of the real life brigades was so insulted by the way they were depicted that they ransacked the homes of the author and publisher.
One of this reader's favorites is the caricature of a playboy, Enjiro, only son and thus heir of the wealthy owner of the D. Bauchery Shop. Enjiro is pictured with a satisfied smile on his round face and described as being in his twenties "without ever having contracted poverty or any other disease, thank you very much." We see his kimono clad figure lying on the floor, enjoying his pipe and dreaming of sensual pursuits.
The robust humor and abundantly detailed drawings evidenced by the authors of the kibyoshi make reading this volume a happy pleasure, while the historical data so assiduously collected by the author is illuminating.
Highly recommended.
- Gail Cooke
Book Description
This treasury of more than 450 lovely designs preserves the original spirit and subtlety of Japanese art while sharpening and enhancing the reproducibility of the designs themselves. Included are black-and-white depictions of people in traditional garb, a generous sampling of nature's bounty, decorative family crests, bold geometric designs, fruit tree blossoms, demons, dragons, and much more.
Customer Reviews:
Very nice for faces, animals and repeating motifs.......2007-10-05
I've been looking through this series for ideas for polymer and metal clay jewelry designs. The faces and figures are lovely, and the repeating motifs of flowers and geometrics are very nice. The dragons are a little lame, but I like Chinese dragons. The gin spirits are delightful and so active, they more than make up for the lazy dragon motifs. A very passible source for design ideas.
Great design source.......2007-03-30
This book offers excellent designs, if you're after an Asian aesthetic the way I am, and the CD-ROM allows you to size the designs on your computer. Very useful for the wearable art and etched jewelry we make!
Disappointing collection.......2006-12-03
Those of you who may have read that this collection has vector art files--beware. There are .eps files but they merely contain jpgs of the clipart. While the selection is OK, I found the artwork to be a little shabby. It seemed like they were scanned from something. Some types of designs that I were hoping would be in there, like kimono motifs, were not. Is it useful? Certainly. Disappointing? Definitely.
Useful Things.......2006-07-03
These designs are useful for the projects listed but they adapt well to other uses such as needlepiont, engraving and ever jewelry designs.I suggest buying this book and cd if you wish to add an oriental favor to your clip art and projects.
Great new designs to use.......2006-02-28
I will be using these ideas and designs for several different types of projects! Can't wait.
Book Description
This is the 25th annual compendium which includes general graphics, symbols and logotypes, book and editorial design, package design, newspaper advertising, magazine advertising, interactive design, motion graphics, signs, displays and monuments.
Average customer rating:
- Another source of inspiration
- great content for its price!!
- Outstanding DVD included - but book itself is average
- Design at his best...
- Art in Japan
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Big in Japan Exploding with eye-popping originality and freshness, today's best Japanese graphics have been gathered together to make this must-have guide to contemporary aesthetics in Japan. With their unique perspective, the Japanese have a way of looking at the world that has long been a source of great interest for the Western mind. Here, Japan's most talented creative professionals strut their stuff in the form of posters, advertisements, print media, visual identity, and print design. Divided into chapters by media type, this highly visual guide presents a diverse selection of graphics and includes an index of designers, complete with website addresses and contact information.
Customer Reviews:
Another source of inspiration.......2005-02-18
I picked this up, being a huge fan of Japanese design.
As a source of inspiration for graphic designers, this book does a terrific job. I currently have at least 10 pages flagged for follow-up, to use as a launching pad for my next concepts.
The book covers packaging, posters & ads, print, and web design, with each section offering up a visual smorgasboard (or revolving sushi-plate, if you will) of designs, including CDs, logos, ad campaigns, billboards, etc. As an added bonus, the CD offers a visual tour of Tokyo, interviews with prominent people in the Japanese advertising and design world, and samples of ads that have run on television.
All in all, this, as most Taschen books, is a brief, very general survey, with little if no copy, serving to inspire visually rather than educate intellectually. But the price is right, and the book is a great resource for visual designers everywhere.
great content for its price!!.......2004-11-16
I spontaneously bought this book (at the bookstore, not on amazon) because the cover and its weight/size caught my attention. After browsing through the entire design section, this huge book (which looks like a dictionary!) is 100% color (at 600 pages that's amazing..!) and considerably cheap compared to other books. The content chosen is visually appealling and very inspirational, I've flipped through this book a lot whenever I'm at a design block or just to get ideas. There is a lot of different content and a great way to look into the Japanese culture of design, its good for people curious about multicultural styles as well as making their own style a little more unique :)
Outstanding DVD included - but book itself is average.......2004-07-03
The included DVD is outstanding with interviews of japanese designers, and funny commercials. The design examples in the book are average. You can go to EPCOT in FL and see similar designs in the Japanese store.
Design at his best..........2004-06-28
I have to disagree with the previous comment, the one referring to "Japanese Art". Sure, it would attract artists, architects and industrial designers as well, because it's such a beautiful book...
However, this book is targeted to Graphic Designers since it's called Japanese Graphics Now. I've seen it in detail... it contains a lot of stuff, from letterhead logos, web design, product and packaging design, poster and advertising examples... everything a graphic (or even an industrial) designer wants in a HUGE ammount (this book is really big... hundreds of pages).
The most interesting feature about this book is that the Oriental people, specially the Japanese have such a different notions of visualization and space treatment, that the way they develop graphic projects usually offer very different results to the ones we expect... (A signage project for a hospital IN THE FLOOR ??????????? Come on guys !!...)
Of course everything is very aesthetic and artistic, but all I have to say is that this book is REALLY a mind opener for graphic designers everywhere in the world...
Thanks.
Art in Japan.......2004-06-17
How beautiful Japanese advertisement is!!
If you are interested in art, you should read this book, because this show Japanese art. Whole book is color pictures and it includes DVD. You could watch Japanese artists' interview, commercial, and cities.
Also, people who are interested in Japan can enjoy this book(^_^)
Book Description
Some of the most ingenious and attractive modern motifs. 746 designs.
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Optical Feast.......2007-06-27
This collection of designs has everything I want. It has designs with many themes and in different sizes. They're all black and white. I highly recommend it.
Book Description
Made in Japan these three simple words conjure playful wit, a delight in detail, formal elegance, and graphic energy. Author of Made in China, Reed Darmon has collected hundreds of images of everyday Japanese design and pop culture ephemera from the past century. Including perfume ads, art deco matchboxes, robot toys, action movie posters, Noh masks, kimono patters, sumo cards, children's books, household product packages, and much more, the fascinating objects assembled here reveal traditional Japanese artistry and techniques as applied to playfully modern design. A stylish object and graphic essay in one, Made in Japan is an extraordinary glimpse into the heart of Japanese popular culture.
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