City Pop Illustration
シティポップのイラスト / 1979–1989 / 2010s revival / Style / Music Graphics
The urban-resort scenes Hiroshi Nagai and Eizin Suzuki painted for record sleeves — cloudless skies, pools, palms and horizons. Pre-bubble Japan's landscape of longing, made a global shared image via vaporwave.
Cloudless blue and pools / Palms and horizons / Flat airbrushed surfaces / The absence of people
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Hiroshi Nagai / Eizin Suzuki / the For You sleeve