3D picture yourself is now reality with this japanese technology.

… because contemporary culture is a core part of visual culture (that lead us to graphic design). Has this kind of humor finds room in the West?

(Source: kawiih0re, via lolitastarr)

“Roshi Ensei Lifting a Heavy Beam”. Ukyo-e print from XIX (19th century).

Yusaku Kamekura annulled the mountain’s pictural qualities to represent a blank canvas and used the skiers as brushes. The trail in the snow works so well as temporal recording of the “brush strokes”. 

We can find similiar assimetry, simplicity and strokes quality in sumi-e paintings. That poster is one of the great Kamekura visual achivements.

Oval Buddha sculpture in Paris. 2007.

Sumo program poster. All sumo wrestlers are illustrated and named by importance order. By Yoshiiku Ikkeisai.

“Love in Color”. New lipsticks colors from Shiseido for women. The different lips colors attract themselves and the girls cannot handle that attraction. 

BUT, I ask you… where is the girl’s left ear? 

Nakamura chose to take it away from the picture to improve the visual harmony and keep the visual reading clean from the excessive information that ear would provide.

Kenya Hara was the designer responsible to handle the Muji visual style. To Hara, white is the ultimate essencial. Complex in its essence, it is the results of the lack and the synthesis of all other colors. White represents the possibility for the designer it is the painter’s blank canvas. 

The background image is blurred, so there are more soft colors and less forms. The background image is the perfect support for the white sofa to stand out. of course, put it floating helps a little…

Magazine advertisemenst for the movie Shazen’nin. Takashi Kono.

Magazine ad for the movie “Tawamure ni Koi wa Sumaji” from 1930 by Takashi Kono.

Tōei shuttle bus linking Roppongi Hills and Shibuya station. Tokyo. 2003. By Takashi Murakami.

(Additional photos from Nekobus and EmmaBurnham)

Lithography gave japanese posters color improvements. The flatness of woodblock prints is no more the only option for visual communication. Also, lithography made mass communication in Japan possible.

Extreme point of view. Unusual, challenging, fresh, peaceful, fantasy and beyond. The copy goes: “Beauty in lightness”. It is a bra ad. The bra’s “X” shape echoes the model arms and legs position, both light and anatomic perfect.

It is impossible to define the woman’s etnic origin. she could be asian, european or american woman. She “is” any and every woman, and the wacoal’s bra fits in them. Designed by Satoe Inoue.