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'Garo' Avant-Garde Manga Magazine Covers | Japan 1960's - 1970's

Garo was a monthly manga anthology magazine in Japan, founded in 1964 by Katsuichi Nagai. It specialized in alternative and avant-garde manga. Here's a collection of over 50 of the front covers...for more info visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garo_(magazine)

Source:
The Three Steps Over Japan blog is a real labour of love, all the Garo magazines have been archived, scanned and reviewed by TSOTE, really good http://threestepsoverjapan.blogspot.com/

http://www.tcj.com/international/garo-1992/
http://vintageninja.net/?p=550

Tokyo Zombie by Yusaku Hanakuma #comic #manga

From comic to film, enjoy the Tokyo Zombie Trailer

"A horror-comedy manga about two blue-collar factory workers and jiu-jitsu experts who deal with a zombie uprising in Tokyo. When the story begins, Fujio and Mitsuo dream of training in martial arts overseas and becoming famous. When they accidentally kill their overbearing boss, they bury him at a man-made garbage mountain known as Dark Fuji, where tons of rotting garbage have been contaminated with industrial waste which, naturally, transforms the bodies of the dead into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies.  Fuji and Mitsuo try their best to survive in this horrific new landscape, but the hapless pair become separated after an idiotic mistake involving potato chips and a stray dog. A few years later, post-apocalyptic Tokyo has become a feudalistic society, in which the rich have enslaved the lower classes, and created gladiator death matches, pitting zombies against slaves, and Fuji and Misuo meet again." http://www.lastgasp.com/d/32824/ 

http://samehat.blogspot.com/2008/04/secret-project-revealed.html
 http://io9.com/5048810/tokyo-zombie-zombies-cage-fights-oral-sex-and-martial-...
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37681
http://www.comicsvillage.com/review.aspx?reviewID=312
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/10/30/japanese-comics-wish-you-a-hap...
http://mechamechamedia.blogspot.com/2008/08/tokyozombiesrock.html
http://dooliblog.com/2008/06/13/sorties-dvd-de-juin/
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=p22j4c4ewp9hjy4&thumb=4
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?p22j4c4ewp9hjy4

And finally, a 'lil fan art... http://samehat.blogspot.com/2009/06/tokyo-zombie-fan-art-from-eoin-marron.html

10 Favourite Posts in 2010

Looking back on 2010, here's 10 of my favourite posts over the year - Have a Happy New Year Everyone! xx

1. Graphic Design of Fred Troller 1930-2002 http://kathykavan.com/fred-troller-graphic-design-swiss-typography

2. Mexico 1968 Olympic Identity by Lance Wyman http://kathykavan.com/mexico-1968-olympic-identity-by-lance-wyman

3. Graphic Heroes: Otl Aicher, Designer 1972 Munich Olympics Identity http://kathykavan.com/graphic-resource-otl-aicher-designer-1972-mun

4. Soviet Arcade Games & Posters http://kathykavan.com/soviet-arcade-games-posters

5. Tadanori Yokoo Psychedelic Posters http://kathykavan.com/tadanori-yokoo-psychedelic-posters-japan-grap

6. A lil' Waldo Pancake for you... http://kathykavan.com/a-lil-waldo-pancake-for-you

7. Modernist Textiles | 1950's & Henry Moore http://kathykavan.com/modernist-textiles-1950s-henry-moore

8. The many ways Star Wars is used in adverts... http://kathykavan.com/the-many-ways-star-wars-is-used-in-adverts

9. A World of Miffy & Dick Bruna http://kathykavan.com/a-world-of-miffy-and-dick-bruna-miffy-dickbru

10. Graphical Godzilla Godzilla Godzilla!!! http://kathykavan.com/graphical-godzilla-godzilla-godzilla

Graphic Travel Ephemera from 1920's & 1930's

Japan

France

Austria, Germany, Hungary, Holland, Switzerland, Russia, Yugoslavia

Automotive

This collection has blown me away (hence such a lot of images posted here!). Some beautiful, some dynamic, some quirky and odd but all really graphic and all capturing the exciting essense of travel from the era.

"My basic passion is paper items such as travel brochures, airline time-tables, ocean liner time-tables, auto road maps, luggage labels,  advertising, and graphic design publications from the 1920s and 1930s, primarily in Europe but also Asia..."

All from the fantastic collection by David Levine at http://www.travelbrochuregraphics.com/
See his Flickr stream here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18528948@N00/sets/

Japanese Fabric & Paper Patterns

Here's a collection of a few modern and vintage Japanese fabric & paper designs I've been hoarding - from cutesy Kawaii, Chiyogami (meaning "1000 generation paper") which are traditional block-printed paper patterns and Kimono fabric and panels they show the remarkable beauty and diversity of Japanese design and are also downright sumptuous, enjoy... 

Reference:

http://printpattern.blogspot.com/2010/02/book-modern-patterns-of-japan.html
http://www.etsy.com/shop/FromJapanWithLove
http://www.spoonflower.com/tags/japanese
http://tokyobunnie.blogspot.com/2008/08/cute-fabrics-at-superbuzzy.html
http://www.superbuzzy.com/index.php
http://www.japanesepaperwholesale.com/index.htm
http://yonagadou.com/item.html
http://www.artfire.com/supplies-Paper-Origami/3/321/0/0/0/0
http://www.kimoyes.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlie_pop/with/419220913/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atelier-media/

Tadanori Yokoo Psychedelic Posters

Bizarre, colourful, psychedellic, trippy, intense, complicated, simple, saturated, contemporary...nuff said!
The National Museum of Art, Osaka: The Complete Posters Exhibition http://www.nmao.go.jp/english/b3_exhi_beginning_yokoo.html

Tadanori Yokoo began producing posters while attending high school in his hometown of Nishiwaki. Then, following stints at the Kobe Shimbun newspaper, the National Advertising Research Center, and after moving to Tokyo in 1960, the Nippon Design Center, Yokoo joined the Japan Advertising Artists Club at the tender age of 22. In the mid-60s, through his relationships with Juro Kara and Shuji Terayama, Yokoo suddenly rose to prominence through works such as Koshi-maki Osen and La Marie Vison. At the same time, his illustrations for magazines such as Heibon Punch and Hanashi no Tokushu made him a darling of the media. Yokoo's posters, which while reflecting post-war Japanese society, have been burned into our brains as unforgettable memories of the era. They are also notable for the fact that rather than following foreign trends, they display a unique sense of Japanese graphic design. Yokoo's creative activities later expanding to include a wide range of fields such as painting and literature, but as he continued to produce posters throughout his career, the poster format functions as the core of his work as an artist.

http://www.tadanoriyokoo.com/prof/index_e.html
http://www.iloveleft.com/blog/read.php?164
http://www.fepy.com/music-film-posters-by-tadanori-yokoo-3774.html