Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Japanese Graphics fromthe 20's and 30's

Found these on another blog but amazed at the timelessness of the design, some of them especially cool for breaking all the rules but pulling it off with some real style. Check out the 'May !' poster below.
Modernist Japanese poster --
"Buy Domestic!" poster, 1930 [+]
Modernist Japanese poster --
Cover of "Nippon" magazine issue #1, Oct 1934 [+]
Modernist Japanese magazine cover --
"Fuji Weekly" cover, Oct 1930 [+]
Modernist Japanese poster -- Modernist Japanese poster --
Poster for Japan's first national census, 1920 [+] // "Health for body and country" poster, c. 1930 [+]
Modernist Japanese poster --
Grand Nagoya Festival poster by Kenkichi Sugimoto, 1933 [+]
Modernist Japanese poster --
Kyoto Grand Exposition to Commemorate the Showa Imperial Coronation, 1928 [+]
Modernist Japanese poster --
Poster design by Shujiro Shimomura, 1928 [+]
Modernist Japanese magazine cover --
"NAPF" (Nippona Artista Proleta Federacio) magazine cover, Feb 1931 [+]

Modernist Japanese magazine cover -- Modernist Japanese poster --
"NAPF" (Nippona Artista Proleta Federacio) magazine covers: Sep 1931 // Oct 1931
Modernist Japanese poster --
"May 1" movie poster by Hiromu Hara, 1928-1929 [+]
Modernist Japanese magazine cover -- Modernist Japanese magazine cover --
"Senki" magazine covers: Oct 1929 // Nov 1929
Modernist Japanese magazine cover -- Modernist Japanese poster --
"Senki" magazine covers: May 1930 // Jan 1930
Modernist Japanese art --
Cover of "Nippon" magazine issue #7, June 1936 [+]
Modernist Japanese art --
Magazine ad for "Seishun Zukai" movie, 1931 [+]
Modernist Japanese art -- Modernist Japanese art --
"Affiches" magazine issue #2, Aug 1927 [+] // "Affiches" magazine issue #3, Sep 1927 [+]
Modernist Japanese art --
"The Advertising World" magazine cover, Sep 1933 [+]
Modernist Japanese art -- Modernist Japanese art --
Book covers: "Modern Commercial Art," 1928 [+] // "Kite" (Tako - 凧) by Takehisa Yumeji, 1926 [+]
Modernist Japanese design --
Poster for 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan (canceled due to war), 1938 [+]

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