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Tadanori Yokoo posters
I can’t exactly pinpoint my love for the sometimes crazy designs of Tadanori Yokoo but I can tell you that though I may not always like them, I’m always irrefutably fascinated by them. His use of colour, composition but mainly the strange juxtapositions of the many different elements in his posters compel me because though they can be so strange and contrastive they always seem to work so well together. So here are my favourite posters by him. Some I might like because they’re plain bizarre, some because I truly think they’re uncommonly beautiful, some I might just think cute.
This post is completely overwhelming yet I tried to keep these to the utmost minimum! I collected all the Yokoo posters I could find online (I surfed for hours on end) and put them online in a zip file here. (I’m mainly doing this for myself as I don’t want to loose all of these :D. I hope I’m not breaking any copyright rules?)
Kiyoshi Awazu
Kiyoshi Awazu (1929-2009), Japanese graphic artist. I love him for his sometimes psychedelic designs and colours mixed with traditional Japanese influences. I’ve been absolutely crazy about Japanese Edo prints for as long as I can remember (or you knew, since my twelfth) and Japanese graphic artists such as Awazu, Tadanoori and Nagai are beautifully influenced by them, the strict lines, the specific shapes etc. but their works remains remarkably fresh and modern because of the colours and modern influences.
Kazumasa Nagai
Kazumasa Nagai is a Japanese graphic designer born in 1929. I think you can immediately tell why I love this man. Bright colours! Animals! Creative links and solutions! I’m also getting increasingly more interested in bold, simplistic shapes and this man’s work fits right in to this new-found obsession.
