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Designing Modern Japan
Sarah Teasley
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Description for Designing Modern Japan
Hardback. Designing Modern Japan is a unique, comprehensive history of Japanese design, exploring the emergence and development of fashion, graphic, product and automotive design in Japan. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40 colour, 80 black and white. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACX; AKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 171. .
From Muji to Sony televisions, our lives are surrounded by Japanese design. We think we know it, whether it reflects calming minimalism, avant-garde catwalk fashion or the Kawaii aesthetic populating Tokyo streets. But these stereotypes do not portray the creativity, generosity and sheer hard work that has gone into creating design industries in Japan. In Designing Modern Japan, Sarah Teasley traces the stories of the people who shaped and shape design in modern Japan. Key to the account is how design was seen as a strategy to help the nation thrive during turbulent times, and for making life better along ... Read more
From Muji to Sony televisions, our lives are surrounded by Japanese design. We think we know it, whether it reflects calming minimalism, avant-garde catwalk fashion or the Kawaii aesthetic populating Tokyo streets. But these stereotypes do not portray the creativity, generosity and sheer hard work that has gone into creating design industries in Japan. In Designing Modern Japan, Sarah Teasley traces the stories of the people who shaped and shape design in modern Japan. Key to the account is how design was seen as a strategy to help the nation thrive during turbulent times, and for making life better along ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780232027
SKU
V9781780232027
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About Sarah Teasley
Sarah Teasley is Professor of Design at RMIT University, Melbourne. She is co-editor of Global Design History (2011).
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