Meccha Kirei: Graphic Design in Japan maps a generation of Japanese graphic designers born between 1970 and 1990, and the conditions shaping how they work today.
About This Book
The book is built on field research and interviews that French designer Alexandre Dimos has carried out in Japan since 2018. It presents the careers and work of around 20 designers—among them Kazunari Hattori, Bunpei Yorifuji and the studio Allright—as a deliberately personal selection rather than a definitive canon.
Dimos sets this generation against the mass-production design that served Japan's postwar boom, and considers how environmental, health and nuclear crises have changed practice, as well as the place of women in the field. Several works appear here for the first time before a European audience.
Key Features
- Profiles of around 20 contemporary Japanese graphic designers and studios
- Grounded in years of interviews and field research in Japan
- Includes work not previously shown in Europe
- Designed by the Paris studio deValence
- Contributions from Tetsuya Goto, Takashi Kashima, Kiyonori Muroga and others
What You'll Discover
- How Japanese graphic design has moved on from the postwar mass-production model
- The influence of environmental, health and nuclear crises on recent practice
- The role of women in contemporary Japanese design
- Individual approaches to typography, image and print
- A European designer's close reading of a distinct design culture
About the Author
Alexandre Dimos is a French graphic designer, co-founder of the studio deValence and a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, with a long-standing research interest in Japanese design.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 200 × 268 mm
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9782494983564
- Publisher: B42
Perfect For: Graphic designers, typographers, students of visual communication and anyone following contemporary Japanese design.