Designing modern Japan
"A revealing look at Japanese design weaving together the stories of people who shaped Japan's design industries with social history, economic conditions, and geopolitics. From cars to cameras, design from Japan is ubiquitous. So are perceptions of Japanese design, from calming, carefully crafted minimalism to avant-garde catwalk fashion, or the cute, Kawaii aesthetic populating Tokyo streets. But these portrayals overlook the creativity, generosity, and sheer hard work that has gone into creat…
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- Full title :Designing modern Japan / Sarah Teasley.
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"A revealing look at Japanese design weaving together the stories of people who shaped Japan's design industries with social history, economic conditions, and geopolitics. From cars to cameras, design from Japan is ubiquitous. So are perceptions of Japanese design, from calming, carefully crafted minimalism to avant-garde catwalk fashion, or the cute, Kawaii aesthetic populating Tokyo streets. But these portrayals overlook the creativity, generosity, and sheer hard work that has gone into creating and maintaining design industries in Japan. In Designing Modern Japan, Sarah Teasley deftly weaves together the personal stories of people who shaped and shape Japan's design industries with social history, economic conditions, and geopolitics.. Key to her account is how design has been a strategy to help communities thrive during turbulent times, and for making life better along the way. Deeply researched and superbly illustrated, Designing Modern Japan appeals to a wide audience for Japanese design, history, and culture."--
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- Publication Date:2022
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Reaktion Books Ltd
- Place of Publication:London, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2022
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (424 pages) : : illustrations (some color)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1780232306, 9781780232300
- oclc:on1296406561
- LC Classification:NK1484.A1
- Dewey Decimal:745.409520904
Table of Contents
'As a practical object it will be profitable' : design, industry and internationalization from the Tokugawa to the Meiji periods -- '100-yen cultured living' : design, policy and commerce in the early twentieth century -- Coffee sets and militarism : design in empire, war and occupation -- 'A landscape like a picture book ' : design, society and economic growth in post-war Japan -- 'Generosity and tolerance' : design and the information industries in late twentieth-century Japan.
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