Japanese Modernism

Series of Posters

Japanese Modernism - After the second war, II was the assignment in the design foundation class. 

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I had to come up with a design idea for a series of posters. Since then the topic was too broad and diverse, I narrowed it down, choose one direction, which was Fine Art from this period, in particular works of On Kawara, Mono-ha, Yukie Ishikawa. 

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After the research, I discovered a book written by Karlyn de Jongh, who writes about his journey into unanswered questions about On Kawara. He contacted to different galleries to send them a question they would ask to On Kawara. These Questions became my inspiration for the posters.

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I tried out different approaches, colorful, funky, collage, enlarged typography, and very minimalistic, clean design. Also, incorporated the Japanese language into the posters to give more feel of Japanese culture itself. 

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The layouts are an assemblage of different image sources. Some of them are made in digital and some in analog. 

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Professor: Emily Smith

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