Japanese Design
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- caperobin
Hey all..was wondering if any of you know some great links to Japanese Graphic Design, especially Japanese Character Design? Many thanks!
- menos0
japanese character design as in the letter forms or character as in cartoon figures and such?
- caperobin0
oh good point! um as in cartoon figures :)
- menos0
hehehe, well i dont really know much about it but have you tried any of the pictoplasma books? there a good resource for character design in general. there are a few qbners that are into this, they'll probably be much more helpful than me.
- +1 pictoplasma (the first one is better then the 2nd one)akrokdesign
- ismith0
I have a few books on Japanese graphic design, but none focused on character design (something I'm starting to get into, so I'll just camp out in this thread for a while).
- caperobin0
he he cool ismith :) thanks menos..will check that out too..
- FortNinety0
I've always been a fan of Japanese hardware design myself. Such as phones and video game consoles...
- akrokdesign0
might find something at...(ping magazine)
http://pingmag.jp/
- Peter0
Funny note: All links posted in this thread are to designs not made by Japanese.
There's a lot of ideas what Japanese design is, and specifically; how the graphic design from here looks.
Wether those ideas reflects the actual design here...
- Apart from EVERYTHING in the Narita Inspected book, it was just compiled and laid out by the Swiss.5timuli
- Sure, there's pictures of telephonebooth-ads in there. But the graphics surrounding it...Peter
- Each spread focused on a Japanese agency and their studio/work/observat... The surrounding graphics weren't Japanese but they were never intended to be the focus of the book, hence the reason they were designed to be unobtrusive.5timuli
- Japanese but they were never intended to be the focus of the book, hence the reason they were designed to be unobtrusive.5timuli
- And by surrounding graphics I mean a paragraph or two of text and maybe some solid blocks.5timuli
- I know, I got all their books.
Thing is, it's mostly just full of stuff those guys found here. Even a shot of a cellphone, outdated by the time of print. Ayways...Peter - ...cut.
To put it short: what they are showing is...or actually, never mind. Why am I wasting time explaining this...Peter
- Meeklo0
for real reference, you could try searching for
Kazumasa-Nagai
http://images.google.com/images?…Shinnoske
http://www.shinn.co.jp/
- kush0
kid robot is so fucking horrible.
- Meeklo0
I thought kid robot was a store from san francisco
- Seanbot0
Try to find some old Sony / Sanyo / Toshiba / Nintendo manuals on eBay - those are full of great character and product illustrations.
- 5timuli0
JPG and JPG2 are worth checking out.
- akrokdesign0
here, shut up and look. ;-)
---> http://www.flickr.com/photos/oaf…