Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975 is a profusely illustrated, dynamically designed, and easy-to-read survey of the history of Japanese graphic design. Designer, educator, critic, and historian Ian Lynam explores graphic design in Japan from its foundations in the graphic arts to the immediate pre-digital design era.
Fracture is grounded by a number of essays that help readers understand the tremendous cultural shifts that have happened in Japan since it re-opened to the West, exploring modernity, imperialism, gender, commercialism, sexuality, and aesthetics.
Fracture is 478 pages, contains 570 full-color images, and was edited by Chris Palmieri and Louise Rouse. It is a hardcover book with red and gold PMS cover sand slipcovers.
- Author
- Ian Lynam
- Designer
- Ian Lynam
- Editor
- Louise Rouse
- Editor
- Chris Palmieri
- Copy Editor
- Angela Paladino
- Image Rights Acquisitions, Proofreader
- Ren Makishima
- Photographer
- Stevie White II
- Proofreader
- Joshua Hansell
- Image production
- Iori Kikuchi
- Image production
- Eglif Pascal Santoso
- Publisher
- Freek Lomme / Set Margins
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