"A collection of 1200 business cards by 500 of the world's leading designers.... American pop, French chic, Italian vitality, Oriental mysticism, Japanese simplicity... the various cultural design styles are visible in these fun and attractive cards, representing a wind range of businesses. This is the first time this number of original business cards have been collected into a single volume."

Business Card Graphics

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Cartoon Character Collection

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Deutschland GmbH

Costume in the World (Japanese Edition)

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This book features many kinds of book designs, shop tool designs, advertising designs, CD/DVD jacket designs, and novelty designs with Japanese manga, animation and video game characters.

Cool Japan Design

Graphic Design

This book is a collection of mushroom and fungi paintings by European and Japanese naturalists in 18th to 19th century. The paintings each show the plant in its habitat and have been executed in a straightforward natural history illustration style with meticulous attention to detail. Beautiful color plate illustrations of each mushroom will attract both botanical art fans and mushroom lovers. It is pleasant to look and taste the beauty of these mushrooms, also useful for your own drawing and painting.

Mushroom Botanical Art (Japanese Edition)

Fujiwo Ishimoto Works Textile and Ceramic (Japanese Edition)

This is a resource book of traditional Japanese stencil patterns, named Isekatagami, in JPEG and PNG format for use. The accompanying booklet contains the designs of Furoshiki, Japanese wrapping fabric, with Isekatagami patterns on it.

Traditional Japanese Stencil Patterns (with DVD): 1600 Images of Ise Katagami from Mitsukoshi-Isetan Collection

Drawing and Handwriting Textures: Ready to Use Frames and Background Patterns (Japanese Edition)

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Hisui Sugiura (1876-1965) is regarded as a pioneer and was definitely a key player of Japanese Commercial Art in the era of modernization. Although he originally studied Japanese-style painting at school, he changed his path to pursue a career as a designer because of great influences by Art Nouveau. Along with making a large number of cover designs for Mitsukoshi, a private magazine published by Mitsukoshi Department Store, he also took charge in Book Design, Poster Design and Graphic Pattern Design by adopting new trends of Wiener Secession and Art Deco.This book introduces most of the Mitsukoshi cover designs as well as his great works of pattern designs. Some of his botanical paintings, also renowned, are included as well. Readers can enjoy the beautiful art collection, and at the same time, should be impressed by the rich design resource of patterns and motifs.

Hisui Sugiura: A Pioneer of Japanese Graphic Design

As every bird s nest is unique, we have a multitude of individual lifestyles. Since we surround ourselves with a lot of things and stuff , how do we figure out how to choose what is important in order for us to live well? LIFECYCLING , a web magazine created by a Japanese interior brand IDÉE, introduces people who are passionate and picky about these things and stuff . It especially focuses on their attractive nests. This title turned the contents of the web magazine into a book with 16 persons examples. Most of them are living in Japan, but 4 of them are from Los Angeles to make the title fresh and impressive. By interviewing these people from various aspects, this book presents tips and ideas that are useful to enhance readers lives. And it also contains a lot of beautiful photographs which show their unique but harmonious lives. We can grasp their sense of aesthetics - how they choose things and have fun with them. This book helps readers to get inspired in a creative way for a better life in the near future. About IDÉE IDÉE, started in 1982, is a "lifestyle brand" based in Tokyo, Japan, and their concept is "life is about everyday" / "exploring Lifestyles". They promote a pleasant daily life through furniture and goods from a wide variety of cultures and also provide designs of residences, offices and stores etc. They have their own store in 8 cities in Japan, and they also supply their goods to other interior stores. Furthermore, they are a subsidiary of MUJI.

Lifecycling: The Story of 16 Inspiring Homes (Japanese and English Edition)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

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