Kazumasa Nagai’s, “Japan” a ~1980’s series, highlights the beauty that one can find in nature, with the use of bright colors and shapes. These posters show the change his style took in the 1980’s. Before, his style was purely modern, using more lines and simple shapes to convey whatever message imbedded within them, but he…
Kazumasa Nagai’s “LIFE” series, ongoing since the 1980’s, brings awareness to the damaging of the environment in Japan at the time and even now. This poster series also highlights the change in Kazumasa Nagai’s design style. It’s style abstract in terms of shapes, but now showcases “tangible subjects.” These “LIFE” posters all show some sort…
Kazumasa Nagai, a modernist and Japanese traditionalist. This famed graphic designer was born on April 20th, 1929 in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He had begun to study sculpture at Tokyo National University of Art, but had dropped out in 1951 due complications with his fundus hemorrhage. Caused by overworking before and after WW2, his hemorrhage…
I found this poster in the tunnel that leads you towards Riddick hall. It caught my attention because of the big and bold “FREE SHOW.” Whoever was in charge of creating this small poster knew how to use this font and sizing to their advantage. Everyone loves free things! At the end of the day,…
M. Butterfly, a story of war, love and treason. Music and Pace Set in 1960’s China, the opening sequence of M. Butterfly starts off with doors sliding open (see figure 1), a low drumroll and a powerful beginning of the score, written by Howard Shore. The opening of these doors welcomes and invites the viewer “inside”…
I was walking around Cameron Village, trying to convince myself that I did not need to buy another book from Barnes & Noble, when I looked up and saw this mural. The message is very simple and I find it very cute. The typography varies and and to me, appears round and soft. The different…
Villains, hate to love them and love to hate them. They’re cunning and come up with the some of the most diabolical, gruesome, and horrifying plans. They know how to make an entrance and make their presence known to others. Also remembered as loud and over the top, flashy and fashionable, our lovely villains are…