Postwar Japanese Poster
戦後日本のポスターデザイン / 1950s–1990s / Style / Regional Graphics
Photography, flat color, calligraphy and traditional motifs, recomposed differently by each designer.
Bold flatness / Photography and calligraphy / Personal symbols / Precise construction
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Studying the style's historical context · Comparing the visual vocabulary across real works
- Type
- Choose by the source era and medium
- Composition
- Identify and reproduce one governing compositional principle
- Material
- Verify the materials and production conditions of real examples
- Caution
- Not one 'Japanese style.' Track the differences by designer, decade and client.
- Further study
- Ikko Tanaka / Tadanori Yokoo / Kazumasa Nagai