The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930 Travel Photographs by Filippo Simonetti

Photographs by Filippo Simonetti

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The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930 Travel Photographs by Filippo Simonetti"In the boom years of the 1920s, Japanese designers developed a radical new vision for their profession. Engaging modernist and avant garde trends from abroad, refashioning local graphic and calligraphic forms, and using the latest tools and techniques, they poured fresh colors and expressive forms into all facets of consumer life, from streetscapes to the printed page. The Complete Commercial Artist, a twenty fourvolume compendium released between