typographics play & work-The present progressive form of 2D & 3D Typographies-

In the domain of graphic design, the typography is one of the important elements in all ages. That’s because the typography has always reflected the sensitivity of the time.
Today, various modes appear one after another through diverse kinds of media. The range of the typographic expression shows an expanse more and more.
This book introduces a wide range of typography works from letters considered to be the main role to letters used to be a picture. Likewise, it includes from a work of the handwriting to a three-dimensional work which is photographed.
In order to hand on the originality and the effectiveness of typography, this book showcases the cutting-edge creativity with a focus on the international works, regardless of type of media.

Art Direction: Masakazu Kitayama (HELP!)
Price: 3,400 yen + tax (ISBN: 978-4-86100-770-5)
Format: 275 x 210 mm, 176 pages
Language: English-Japanese Bilingual / Release Date: 24th June 2011

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Girls Handicraft Dictionary

This is a cute visual dictionary of handicraft, craft tool, and material.
It is not for a professional but for who searches handicraft hobby, or who just started creating original craft works and wants to try many genres in handicraft using various materials.
This book is great to find new ideas and new genre of handicraft, and can also be used as a catalog as its listing practical information on tools and basic terms.

Price: 1,600 yen + tax ( ISBN: 978-4861007415 )
Format: 208 x 150 mm, 192 pages ( Full Color )
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 26th May 2011

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Masters of Nordic Designs - following their footmarks

Journey into Denmark, Sweden, Finland...

This is a photo document book following the footmarks of Nordic designs such as architectures, furnitures, interiors, graphics, and textiles, etc.
Masters of Nordic designs created functional and warm feeling daily commodities, modern architectures harmonize with nature, comfortable and beautiful interiors. Many of them focused on the design in lifestyle as not only featuring how they look but the scenery of lifestyle and time.
This book features Arne Emil Jacobsen ( Denmark ), Erik Gunnar Asplund (Sweden ), and Alvar Aalto ( Finland ), and visit places of scenic beauty, meeting with people who know those days and follow their real images and achievements. This book also includes a report of Nordic vintage auction and directory of Nordic designer brands.

Price: 1,800 yen + tax ( ISBN: 978-4861007385 )
Format: 208 x 144 mm, 176 pages ( Full Color ), softcover with jacktet
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 24th May 2011

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Handfont, Handwork-New analog style patterns-

In recent years, digitization has been advancing. On the other hand, the analog taste graphics which have texture and warmth attracts attention again. This book collected fonts and images which have new analog expression; includes analog taste hand fonts such as handwriting, drawing font, typewriting letter, etc...and the image such as a notebook, a sketchbook, a T-shirt, a board, etc… Through combining these fonts with these images, you can easily create graphic work with a little difference. Loosely taste is cool? You please enjoy graphics of such the new analog-style.

Price: 2,800 yen + tax (ISBN: 978-4-86100-733-0)
Format: 148 x 210 mm, 232 pages (Full color), softcover with jacket
Language: Japanese-English Bilingual / Release Date: 25th April 2011
Including: DVD-ROM x 1

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minä perhonen?

－This book is composed of words and pictures and will tell you 15-year history of a Japanese fashion brand “minä perhonen”
minä perhonen was established on 1995 by Akira Minagawa, from the hope to make "special daily clothes". Their fabrication process begins together with the sketches of original textile. They have been continuing to produce the fashions contained poetry/story. When we put on their clothes, our feelings become lighter and uplifted. In their creation contained marvelous charm, minä perhonen holds on the original brand philosophy which defies stereotype of fashion world.
This book describes minä perhonen's accumulated history, their philosophy, and their challenges, through visual and words. Centered around 50 keywords such as "time" "embroidery" "imagination" "wind" "reflection", this book tells you about designers' passions and their perspectives tothe society or, uncompromised conversations during the fabrication process. Plentiful images of textiles, their atelier and factory provide a sense of reality to these stories. Atsuki Kikuchi, minä perhonens' graphic designer is the art director of this book. Through this book condensed their 15-year history, hope you will feel their unshakable belief which become a core of expressive expression on their creation.

Author: minä perhonen
Art director: Atsuki Kikuchi
Price: 2,600 yen + tax (ISBN: 978-4-86100-746-0)
Format: 184 x 240 m, 208 pgaes (Full color), Softcover with jacket
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 15th April

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Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 100

This is a yearbook of 100 Japanese Motion Graphic Creators, listing their works, profiles and contact details and comes with a sample DVD of their works. Readers only need to look at this book to view the latest motion graphic scenes!


Price: 3,800 yen + tax
Format: 164 x 246 mm (Full Color) Softcover with Jacket
Language: English-Japanese Bilingual
Contain 1 DVD ( Contains Movies, Music and Interactive contents)

Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2011

Projection mapping techniques, datamosh, Ustream, 3D, AR ,etc...this book shows you the latest projects, and you can actually check their sample works for an hour by the attached DVD, moreover, featuring 5 projects of live motion graphics / directions at the end of the book. This is a mush have book for motion graphics enthusiast as you can overview of the latest and cross-genre motion graphics.

Format: 182 x 257 mm, 256 pages (Full color), Softcover with Jacket
Language: English-Japanese bilingual / Release Date: 25th April 2011

Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2010

Pages:256, ISBN 978-4-86100-710-1, DVD: 1hour

Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2009

Pages: 256, ISBN: 978-4-86100-643-2 DVD: 53 Works / 56 mins

Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2008

Pages: 256, ISBN: 978-4-86100-576-3 DVD: 49 Works / 58 mins

Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2007

Pages: 256,ISBN: 978-4-86100-500-8 DVD: 47 Works / 50 mins

Japanese Motion Graphic Creators

Pages: 272, ISBN: 978-4-86100-362-8 DVD: 57 Works / 60 mins

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TSUTSUMU-Traditional Japanese Packaging-

- Conveying the "aesthetic" and "resonance" of Traditional Japanese Culture, "Wa".
Currently "Wa" culture boom is taking place in every media in Japan. This phenomenon indicates that growing skepticism about expanding mass production and consumption in the world and Traditional Japanese Culture is being re-evaluated today; the cultural values on making harmonious coexistence with nature, and a sense of creating daily commodities by own hand.
Traditional Japanese Packaging is an art form that applies sophisticated design and natural aesthetic to simple objects. This book is a collection of the late Hideyuki Oka who was a top collector and researcher of Japanese Packaging, featuring the embodiment of "Wa" culture's aesthetic and resonance.

Hideyuki Oka (1905-1995) was one of Japan's leading graphic designers. He was the pioneer who created Multidiscipline design office which engages designer, photographer, advertising copywriter together, in Japan.
His Packaging Collection is largely constructed of bamboo, rice straw, hemp twine, paper, and leaves, all of the objects are made from natural materials.
Throughout many exhibitions and books (Ex. "How to Wrap Five Egg" translated in English and published by Waterhill in 2008), ha has been known in broad as well as in Japan.

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p.10 Table of contents : the origin of Packaging : written by Hideyuki Oka
p.18 Wood
p52 Bamboo
p.80 Bamboo grass
p.92 Straw
p.114 Soil
p.132 Paper
p.162 Others
・Appendix
p.178 About "Packaging collection"
p.180 The origin of traditional Japanese Packaging and aesthetic feeling
p.184 List of Plates (in Japanese)
p.190 List of Plates (in English) p.194 Index of Magro Museum of Art (Tokyo)'s Packaging collections (these collections are formally owned by Hideyuki Oka)

Edit: Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
Art direction & Design: Takasuke Onishi (direction Q)
Price: 2,381 yen + tax (ISBN 978-4-86100-771-2)
Fromat: 183 x 257 mm, 208 pages (Full color), Paperback
Language: Japanese-English Bilingual / Release Date: 22th February 2011

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