June 11, 2009

Extraordinary early 20th century magazine covers from Japan

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11 comments:

  1. mind-blowingly amazing!
    great post. So did you actually buy all of these?

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  2. That's crazy talk. Seriously, I wish I knew exactly what they are and where I could buy them, but the likelihood of that happening is slim.

    These all come from Bookcover Design in Japan 1910s-40s (as mentioned in the post), which is out of print (and all in Japanese) but there are hopefully a couple copies floating around the internet. 600 more images where these came from! I picked my favorites, but every time I open the book I find 20 new favorites.

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  3. At Urawa museum near Tokyo, they had an exhibition with japanese magazine covers of more or less the same period (Showing only the first issue of each magazine). They have a catalogue, that was still available a few month ago.
    Cheers
    Antoine
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  4. I believe the term is, uh.. wow. Incredible.

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  5. Yes, these are all great, too.
    Thanks for posting these, Will.

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  6. These magazine covers from the early 20th century are simply amazing. Great work!!

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  7. You have an amazing blog, I followed Moon Rat's link here... My mother used to have magazines like this, so she is kicking herself now for throwing them away...lol
    thank you for sharing these covers!

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  8. Outstanding collection. These beautiful, masterful creations have totally inspired me to branch out some design ideas I've been having.

    Exquisite spacing, color, detail. I can't say enough. I'm going down to the antique shop to see if I can find some designs like these.

    Thanks for the great post.

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  9. Some illustrations seem to be inspired by russian styled drawings. Japan was not so isolated then.. Your posts on german and japanese book covers are vert inspiring. Thank you

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  10. hi will

    you've probably already found all this, but if not, i thought you might be interested.

    cool post!

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  11. oooh loving this blog! I'm getting really into book design (I work at a publishers anyway) and I love Japanese art (lived in Japan) so this blog is definitely feeding two of my obsessions right now... thanks so much and keep it coming!

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