Street Graphics Tokyo

By: Dawson, Barry

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.

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500283796
• ISBN13: 9780500283790
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!