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Boxed, 7 x 5 in. / 40 color notecards. PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/29/2025
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ISBN 9798991621205 SDNR50
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| | | Japan Moderne: Design Gems from the 1920s and ’30s
 Fans of The Complete Commercial Artist will fawn over this postcard set featuring some of the journal’s most appealing designsThis set of 40 postcards features 20 favorite designs from a spectacular sourcebook of Deco-era Japanese design. Launched in the late 1920s, The Complete Commercial Artist (Gendai shogyo bijutsu zenshu) showcased work by Japan’s early design visionaries in 24 volumes discussing posters, window displays, lighted signs and more. The colorful selections featured in this stationery set include a dashing dalmatian and handsome hat rack, as well as designs for radios and pens, adorable cat-shaped arches, geometric character designs and modernist illustrations with jazz performers and bob-haired women prepping for a night on the town. With artwork by Sugiura Hisui, Murayama Tomoyoshi, Hamada Masuji and other leading graphic artists of the era, these retro postcards deliver a pop of mailable moderne in a keepsake box.
PRAISE AND REVIEWSThe Financial Times [This] book of postcards captures a pivotal moment in graphic art. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/26/2025 In March of 2024, Letterform Archive Books published The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930, a breathtaking compendium of the influential interwar Japanese commercial design journal that Steven Heller has described as “the holy grail of graphic design artifacts representing the art deco, or Moderne, period.” Now, Letterform Archive Books has collected twenty of the most charming designs and published them as a collection of forty postcards, housed in what might be the cutest box of all time. continue to blog | |
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FORMAT: Boxed, 7 x 5 in. / 40 color notecards.
LIST PRICE: U.S. $22.95
LIST PRICE: CANADA $34.95
GBP £18.99
ISBN: 9798991621205
PUBLISHER: Letterform Archive Books
AVAILABLE: 4/29/2025
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| Japan Moderne: Design Gems from the 1920s and ’30s Published by Letterform Archive Books. Fans of The Complete Commercial Artist will fawn over this postcard set featuring some of the journal’s most appealing designs This set of 40 postcards features 20 favorite designs from a spectacular sourcebook of Deco-era Japanese design. Launched in the late 1920s, The Complete Commercial Artist (Gendai shogyo bijutsu zenshu) showcased work by Japan’s early design visionaries in 24 volumes discussing posters, window displays, lighted signs and more. The colorful selections featured in this stationery set include a dashing dalmatian and handsome hat rack, as well as designs for radios and pens, adorable cat-shaped arches, geometric character designs and modernist illustrations with jazz performers and bob-haired women prepping for a night on the town. With artwork by Sugiura Hisui, Murayama Tomoyoshi, Hamada Masuji and other leading graphic artists of the era, these retro postcards deliver a pop of mailable moderne in a keepsake box.
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