- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson (Nov 26 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0500283796
- ISBN-13: 978-0500283790
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 21.9 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,228,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Street graphics have become the visual language of cities. Signs and symbols instruct, inform, portray concerns, and express aspirations. Culturally specific, they are also increasingly universal, always creative, and always fun.
Tokyo's vibrant street graphics combine ancient tradition, twentieth-century mass production, and a twenty-first-century urban vision that is uniquely Japanese. A colorful clash of imagery renders the familiar strange and the strange bizarre. Cartoon characters can signify the police or pornography. Fashion statements are derived from diverse sources—ancient Egypt or even a hospital operating room. Slot machines vend erotica; pets and cops are robots; tempting dishes of sushi turn out to be inedible plastic representations. Ridley Scott's futuristic film Blade Runner was inspired by Tokyo's neon nightscape, where a fashionable department store doubles as a giant digital TV screen featuring lifesize dinosaurs in Godzilla's hometown. 150 color photographs.
About the Author
Barry Dawson's photographic vision of Tokyo forms a creative reference for students and designers, as well as an imaginative, offbeat pictorial guide for visitors and armchair travelers.
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By Ivan Jimenez Mingrat (barcelona, Spain) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Street Graphics Tokyo (Paperback)
I wasnt expecting underground design in this book. I was looking for what I exactly found in the book: Simple graphics found in the streets, in food packaging, flyers, pamphlets... Its everything you might "see" in Tokyo but that you usually wouldnt pay attention to until u see it in the book.All the pictures in this book are color, in a glossy, nice paper. The overall quality of the book is really GOOD. I bought street graphics of New York too in the same order, and believe me, for the price, its a really, really good book for you all graphic-hungry-designers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This review is from: Street Graphics Tokyo (Paperback)
I had expectations of edgey underground-sub-culture images as specified with the above "Blade Runner" connotations. Instead this book is less than inspiring with imagery you can probably find on the internet.
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By Ivan Jimenez Mingrat - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Street Graphics Tokyo (Paperback)
I wasnt expecting underground design in this book. I was looking for what I exactly found in the book: Simple graphics found in the streets, in food packaging, flyers, pamphlets... Its everything you might "see" in Tokyo but that you usually wouldnt pay attention to until u see it in the book.All the pictures in this book are color, in a glossy, nice paper. The overall quality of the book is really GOOD. I bought street graphics of New York too in the same order, and believe me, for the price, its a really, really good book for you all graphic-hungry-designers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: Street Graphics Tokyo (Paperback)
I had expectations of edgey underground-sub-culture images as specified with the above "Blade Runner" connotations. Instead this book is less than inspiring with imagery you can probably find on the internet.
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