Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975 musical creating your own pictorial language

creating your own pictorial language

the escape room that fits in the palm of your hand

Removing sculpture from the pedestal

building shifting pathways as every move opens new possibilities while disrupting old ones

including Die Radiolarien

Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975 musical creating your own pictorial languageWith Fracture, author Ian Lynam presents a survey of Japanese design across a century as told through the biographies of its most influential creators. The chronology begins less than two decades after Japans opening to the West, ending a 200 year isolationist policy. Lynam features the stories of more than 90 pacesetters shaping the countrys modern aesthetic. We meet Hani Motoko, considered Japans first female journalist, who commissioned Frank Lloyd