Mid-century Picture Book
ミッドセンチュリーの絵本 / 1940s–1960s / Style / Illustration Styles
The postwar golden age of the picture book: flat limited color unafraid of misregistration, simplified figures and playful unity of type and image bringing modernist form into children's daily lives.
Flat limited color / The charm of misregistration / Simplified figures / Type and image as one
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
- Leonard Weisgard / Alice and Martin Provensen / Bruno Munari's book experiments