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The most complete volume on the subject in any language Japanese graphic design has been researched and published in Italy up to the first decade of the new millennium, but there is a gap from then to today.
edited by Gian Carlo Calza with Elisabetta Scantamburlo

This research aims at filling that gap considering the first two decades of the new millennium, covering on one side the past, in the names of important recognized masters, and on the other side exploring new names and trends. The volume includes 85 graphic designers and 756 posters. It is the most complete volume on the subject in any language.

Japanese contemporary posters are considered to have started in the mid 50’s, after the Second World War and following a period of depression, post-militarism, and post-autarchy. The new expressive mode was fuelled by stimuli coming from abroad, but it was also a chance to reinterpret traditional themes and colours, bringing them into modernity in refreshing and successful ways.

Since the post-war period, Japan has seen a rapid evolution in the arts: painting, architecture, sculpture, graphics, theatre, music, and cinema. Influences, assimilations, denials, transformations, new creative processes gave rise to a vast quantity of cultural and artistic movements. In this maze of expressive forms, graphic design is a precious tool for tracing and following the thread of national creativity and the more or less intense permanence of traditional aesthetic sensibility in the new forms taken.

Over half a century after the inception of graphics and with the coming Olympic Games taking place now in 2021, this volume aims at taking a wide view at the trends and aesthetic shifts that can be traced in the development of graphic design in Japan.

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This book brings together the best of Japanese graphic design in the posters that accompanied Japan from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics to the creation of the Issey Miyake logo, and from the Osaka Expo to the official poster for the Pan-Pacific Design Congress. Ken’ya Hara was born in the province of Okyama in 1958. After graduating from the Department of Design at Musashino Art University in 1981 and obtaining his M.A. in 1983, he joined the Nippon Design Center where he established the Hara Design Institute in 1992.

Yusaku Kamekura was born in Kanbara in 1915. He is considered to be the figure who contributed most to the spread of Japanese graphic design in the post-WWII period. He graduated with a degree in architecture and industrial arts in 1933; in 1940, he became the director of Nippon Kobo and in 1949 he was appointed artistic director of the magazine Commerce Japan. His most important designs, including the posters for the 1964 Olympic Games, the 1970 Osaka Expo, the Hiroshima Appeals, and the logo for the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, all made a significant contribution to increasing his fame.

Shin Matsunaga was born in 1940 in Tokyo. After graduating in 1964 from the department of design at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, he joined the advertising division at Shiseido. He designed the PEACE ’86 poster and curated all the graphic design for the Sezon Museum of Modern Art. He also designed the symbol and official poster for the 1989 Pan-Pacific Design Congress, the human rights poster commemorating the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, the medal for Mint’s 120th anniversary, the logo for Issey Miyake and RHIGA Royal Hotels, and the package design for the French cigarette brand Gitanes Blondes (1995).

Film director and art director Nagi Noda was born in Tokyo and made a name for herself as one of the most important young Japanese designers. She first achieved fame as an art director, designing publicity for the print media and graphics for publishing and the music industry, before working for bigger clients such as Nike and the Laforet Harajuku department stores. Ikko Tanaka was born in 1930 in Nara. In 1950, at just 19 years old, he graduated from the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts (now the Kyoto University of Arts) and immediately afterwards started working for companies such as the Kanegafuchi textiles company and the Sankei Shinbun daily newspaper. He designed the signage and medals for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the pavilion dedicated to Japanese history at the 1970 Osaka Expo.

Celebrating twenty-five years of PHUNK, this book traces the ways in which the Singapore-based design collective has mixed urban street culture, art and design to create a unique body of work

Traditional Chinese folklore, Hong Kong wuxia pulp fiction, Japanese manga, American street culture and British new wave music — all come together in the universe of PHUNK. Since its founding in 1994, the Singapore-based contemporary art and design collective made up of Alvin Tan, Melvin Chee, Jackson Tan and William Chan has blended diverse cultures, broken down creative boundaries and surpassed the waves of globalization to create a visual signature of its own.

Control Chaos is a deep dive into this visual rock band, retracing their journey over the last twenty-five years to becoming one of 21st-century Asia’s leading creative studios.

About the Author:

Justin Zhuang is a writer and researcher with an interest in design, cities, culture, history and media. He has written several books about Singapore design, including INDEPENDENCE: The History of Graphic Design in Singapore Since the 1960s.

Cozy Days: The Art of Iraville is a collection of the best work by popular illustrator Ira Sluyterman van Langeweyde, also known as Iraville. This lavish hardback book presents hundreds of colorful paintings of nature, small towns, idyllic scenes, and charming characters, as well as offering insights into Ira’s career path, watercolor painting process, and hand-crafted materials.

About the Author:

Ira “Iraville” Sluyterman van Langeweyde is a prolific Munich-based illustrator with a passion for watercolors. Her idyllic paintings of flora and fauna, travel scenes, home comforts, and autumnal landscapes are rendered with exquisite care, often using handmade pigments, creating a unique, picturesque world beloved by fans across the globe. She shares her expertise with her followers via her highly popular Instagram and YouTube accounts, as well as in-person painting workshops.

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Cutting edge packaging and graphic design created by and for craft breweries around the world.

Craft breweries spring up like mushrooms around the globe. Creating unique brands to stand out, they draw from the full riches of graphic language and are leading the way in modern packaging design. From the minimalist to the expressionist, using lines, colors, patterns and illustrations, all the styles are allowed and it makes for an exciting, exuberant visual culture.

In Craft Beer Design, Danish designer Peter Monrad finally brings a global perspective to the truly global phenomenon that is craft beer branding. As microbreweries use cans and bottle labels to define their ethos and identity, they push the boundaries of graphic design and illustration. This curated selection shows the best and the most out-there, and reveals that when it comes to craft beer, what’s on the can matters as much as what’s in it.

About the Author:

Peter Monrad is a Copenhagen-based graphic designer with years of experience in branding, art direction, design for mobile apps, and various international start-ups. He’s also an avid consumer of IPA and a musician / producer releasing music under the moniker Tiny Anthem.

Creating a brand identity is a fascinating and complex challenge for the graphic designer. It requires practical design skills and creative drive as well as an understanding of marketing and consumer behaviour. This practical handbook is a comprehensive introduction to this multifaceted process.

Exercises and examples highlight the key activities undertaken by designers to create a successful brand identity, including defining the audience, analyzing competitors, creating mood boards, naming brands, designing logos, presenting to clients, rebranding and launching the new identity.

Case studies throughout the book are illustrated with brand identities from around the world, including a diverse range of industries – digital media, fashion, advertising, product design, packaging, retail and more.

About the Author:

Catharine Slade-Brooking has an industry background in branding, packaging and illustration with a client list including Glaxo Smith Kline, Lloyds Bank and the Sunday Times. She has written widely on graphic design subjects.
She currently teaches on the BA Graphic Communication course at Farnham UCA.

People like to share their creativity and preference on any platforms nowadays. Handbag is definitely a canvas to display personal interests and taste. 

Creative Bags presents a collection of the most originally created handbags around the globe that are diverse in the use of materials, forms, colors and techniques. 

The book is a must-have for anyone seeking news ways to realize their design ideas. Each copy comes with a multifunctional cloth shopping bag tailored to the size of the book.

Business cards are a statement of personality and style, capable of conveying much more than contact information. They represent the creativity and intention, or ambition, of a company in a very portable format. As a historical artefact in the digital age, the business card is constantly evolving and only those that truly stand out are memorable. One way to achieve a noteworthy effect is through the use of interactive features. Others include the use of colour, unusual shapes, or innovative materials. This book collects together all of these techniques and designs.

Bedevilled by the demons of self-doubt, fear of failure or lack of inspiration? Lay waste to your mind-forged monsters with the help of Creative Demons and How to Slay Them.

If you've ever embarked on a creative endeavour, then there's a good chance you'll have been bedevilled by self-doubt, fear of failure or a lack of inspiration at some point along the way. This book will help you to banish those mind-forged monsters one by one, no matter how grotesque or scary they may be.

Drawing on inspirational anecdotes from art, philosophy, neuroscience, nature, music and contemporary culture, creativity expert Richard Holman provides you with your very own mental armoury to see you through every stage of the creative process. By learning through the experiences of such creative luminaries as Leonardo da Vinci, Marina Abramovic, J.K. Rowling, Dr Seuss and Herbie Hancock, you'll find out how best to overcome the perils of procrastination, the sting of criticism, the seductive tug of convention or the gnawing feeling that you're not up to it.

It's time to say farewell to your demons and make your next creative project the very best it can be.

Contents List:

Introduction • 1: The Demon of Procrastination • 2: The Demon of the Blank Page • 3: The Demon of Doubt • 4: The Demon of Convention • 5: The Demon of Constraints • 6: The Demon of Criticism • 7: The Demon of Theft • 8: The Demon of Accidents • 9: The Demon of Failure • 10: The Demon of Disappointment • Epilogue

About the Author:

Richard Holman is a creative specialist, with a background in design and advertising. He runs workshops on creativity all over the world, to inspire people and brands to make better ideas. He also hosts the podcast 'The Wind Thieved Hat', where he interviews leading artists and creators, and is a regular contributor to Creative Review and Creativepool. Al Murphy is an illustrator whose clients include the BBC, MTV, Newsweek, the Guardian and Faber & Faber. He has inspired many to pursue a career in illustration, confident they can do better.

Bedevilled by the demons of self-doubt, fear of failure or lack of inspiration? Lay waste to your mind-forged monsters with the help of Creative Demons and How to Slay Them.

If you've ever embarked on a creative endeavour, then there's a good chance you'll have been bedevilled by self-doubt, fear of failure or a lack of inspiration at some point along the way. This book will help you to banish those mind-forged monsters one by one, no matter how grotesque or scary they may be.

Drawing on inspirational anecdotes from art, philosophy, neuroscience, nature, music and contemporary culture, creativity expert Richard Holman provides you with your very own mental armoury to see you through every stage of the creative process. By learning through the experiences of such creative luminaries as Leonardo da Vinci, Marina Abramovic, J.K. Rowling, Dr Seuss and Herbie Hancock, you'll find out how best to overcome the perils of procrastination, the sting of criticism, the seductive tug of convention or the gnawing feeling that you're not up to it.

It's time to say farewell to your demons and make your next creative project the very best it can be.

Contents List:

Introduction • 1: The Demon of Procrastination • 2: The Demon of the Blank Page • 3: The Demon of Doubt • 4: The Demon of Convention • 5: The Demon of Constraints • 6: The Demon of Criticism • 7: The Demon of Theft • 8: The Demon of Accidents • 9: The Demon of Failure • 10: The Demon of Disappointment • Epilogue

About the Author:

Richard Holman is a creative specialist, with a background in design and advertising. He runs workshops on creativity all over the world, to inspire people and brands to make better ideas. He also hosts the podcast 'The Wind Thieved Hat', where he interviews leading artists and creators, and is a regular contributor to Creative Review and Creativepool. Al Murphy is an illustrator whose clients include the BBC, MTV, Newsweek, the Guardian and Faber & Faber. He has inspired many to pursue a career in illustration, confident they can do better.

Mend, rethink, transform, recreate!

Mending your favorite fabric items -- from jeans to sweaters to sofa covers -- becomes a true art form in Creative Mending. In this book, mending guru Hikaru Noguchi shows you her entire range of valuable techniques -- from embroidery and patching to darning and felting -- that are just challenging enough for experienced menders.

Noguchi's basic rules of mending are that the repair should suit the fabric and its user, and that there are lots of creative ways to create beautifully customized repairs -- some subtle, others making a statement.

She provides 13 techniques that show you how to:

- Apply creative repairs to both knitted and woven fabrics
- Use yarn, floss, ribbon, and fabric to reinvent well-loved garments
- Make understated repairs that add just a touch of contrast, color, or texture
- Use visible mending techniques for bold repairs
- Darn with felt to add body and dimension to a repaired item
- Match your repairs to the damage, the fabric, and the wearer
- Maneuver through tricky places like inseams and underarms

And more!

The 13 illustrated lessons and over 300 color photos in this book provide detailed examples for all the basic techniques. Lots of variations plus plenty of tips and examples (67 in all) provide you with all the guidance you need to rethink and repair beautifully.

The stunning photos will inspire you to get creative on that fraying neckline or worn elbow!

About the Author:

Hikaru Noguchi is a knitted textile designer. Her passion for fabric has led her to become one of the world's leading experts in darning, with the aim to creatively fix rather than discard. Her darning books, including Darning: Repair, Make, Mend are popular all around the globe, and her textiles have been widely exhibited and are sold in boutiques worldwide. 

This book focuses on packaging structure design, showcasing various design projects in three chapters: Basic Packaging Structures, Diagrams and Projects.

1. Basic Packaging Structures: Basic information, collects knowledge on the structural design of carton packaging.

2. Diagrams: collects 60 copyright-free diagrams with die-cut outlines that can be applied in any package production.

3. Projects: collects 100 outstanding packaging design projects from around the world.

Structure is an essential element in packing design. Apart from introducing the basic types of packaging structure and basic knowledge, this book focuses on presenting excellent creative packaging works from around the world. Each project selected exemplifies a unique design concept, which is a well of inspiration for readers worldwide. The accompanying DVD contains 60 copyright free and 175 copyrighted templates of the packaging structure.

About the Author:

SendPoints is a China-based publisher of design books and magazines. Representing traditional and cutting-edge designs from around the world, their publications range across art and culture, graphic and product design, fashion, exhibition, interior design and architecture.

In Crochet Every Way Stitch Dictionary, designer Dora Ohrenstein offers detailed instructions for how to create 125 stitch patterns and explains how to increase and decrease each stitch pattern in three different ways — without shaping, with shaping at the edges, and with internal shaping.

This hefty collection of stitch patterns, ranging from lace and filigree to shells and textured stitches, is loaded with beautifully photographed swatches of each pattern, plus charted and text instructions. A focus on the ins and outs of shaping makes working stitch patterns far more accessible and allows the creative crocheter to make many items without a pattern.

Crochet Every Way Stitch Dictionary will become an invaluable go-to resource that’s sure to inspire legions of crocheters to use stitch patterns in new and exciting ways.

About the Author: 

Dora Ohrenstein is a leading crochet designer, author, and teacher. She is the author of Top-Down Crochet Sweaters and The Crocheter’s Skill-Building Workshop. She lives in New York City.

Stylish and super-practical, this introduction to the key skills of crochet has exactly the skills you need to master this perennially popular craft.

For a book this size there's a remarkable amount of useful content:

Introduction
- how to use this book, abbreviations and symbols
Before you start
Basic stitches and techniques
- seven crochet stitches with detailed sbs instructions
More advanced techniques
- seven ways to add decorations, make floral buttonholes, join pieces, etc
The most common stitches
- fifteen more stitches, each with detailed sbs instructions
Flat circles and squares
- fourteen patterns for circles, squares and patches that can be stitched together into blankets

About the Author:

The author of numerous craft books and editor of the technical section of Marie Claire Idées, Marie-Noëlle Bayard is an outstanding teacher whose experience enables her to pass on the basics of different needlework techniques simply and precisely.

A startling look at the golden age of surgery through gruesome yet beautiful technical illustrations and paintings from the Wellcome Collection, written by the bestselling author of The Sick Rose

The 19th century saw a complete transformation of the practice and reputation of surgery. This fascinating book follows its increasingly optimistic evolution, drawing on the very best examples of rare surgical textbooks, with a focus on the extraordinary visual materials, held by the Wellcome Collection.

Unnerving and graphic, yet beautifully rendered, these fascinating illustrations include step-by-step surgical techniques paired with medical instruments and painted depictions of operations in progress. Arranged for the layman from head to toe, and accompanied by an authoritative, eloquent and inspiring narrative from medical historian Richard Barnett, this is an engrossing and enlightening volume.