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Graphic designs for Otaku culture have become more highly developed over the past decade, evolving from mere images of printed characters to more integrated graphic packages full of detail and rich interpretations of the titles.
TEXT IN JAPANESE ONLY.
Edit by IDEA.
Softcover, 225x297mm, 264 pages
Designers:
Shin Sobue+cozfish, Shin Sobue, Heiquiti Harata, Junichi Kusaka, Norito Inoue, VOLARE, Shinichi Sekine's Working Room, Chord Design Studio, Veia, Mach55Go, Kohei Nawata, Tsuyoshi Kusano, Noriyuki Jinguji, Kazuo Miyamura, Milky Isobe, chutte, matic-log, Hibiki Chikada, Shiyu Yanagiya, Tatsuya Ariyama, Bunpei Yorifuji, Hiroshi Niigami, Hideaki Shimada, Junji Takahashi, Bay Bridge Studio, ARTEN, Shindosha, Banana Grove Studio, Teruhisa Tajima.
"Kazunari Hattori Graphics" contains about 160 selected works of Kazunari Hattori, a multi-disciplinary Japanese graphic designer. Hattori is well-known for his direction of advertising for the Kewpie Corporation and East Japan Railway Company, as well as his art direction for the magazines Mayonaka, Ryuko Tsushin and here and there. He also designs books, exhibition posters, logos, and symbols. His work in the field of corporate identity is notable, having designed the identity of the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum and many other projects.
This book is based on the IDEA Magazine feature article "Kazunari Hattori 100 Page" , though has been expanded to include a number of additional diverse works. A selection of Hattori's works have been photographed by famed Japanese photographers Takashi Honma and Mikiya Takimoto exclusively for this publication. Essays on Hattori's work and influence by Masayoshi Nakajo, Nakako Hayashi and Mimi Hachikai are included, as well as annotations on each featured design project by Kazunori Hattori himself.
The revised and enlarged edition of Idea No.325: A Natural History of Printers' Flowers.
TEXT IN JAPANESE ONLY.
Editor: Hiroshi Komiyama
(Text in Japanese)
Author: Hiroshi Komiyama
148 x 210 mm, 272 pages, 2009
(Text in Japanese)
Edited by IDEA
Softcover, 225*297mm, 240pages
A visual research on design and advertisements of UNIQLO from 1997, and Interviews with creative directors and stuffs.
A detailed analysis of Japanese Typesetting in aspects of its elements, attibution and structur.
[Text in Japanese]
Shinro Ohtake is a outstanding figure in the contemporary art world in Japan. His works encompass painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, wrinting and publishing, puroduced in overwehelming quality and quantity everyday. His last exhibition Zen Kei held at Museum of Modern Art Tokyo in 2006 was greatly successful, attracting national attention.