«Chose a style and artist in Graphic design history that you think fits your personality the most, create a front cover for a magazine, kind of represent yourself in a magazine.»
I really love the Japanese influence in design in general. It got a minimal yet detailed look, and I especially love the combination of old arts in a modern way.
Here’s my cover, or poster sort of. The left box contains my name in hiragana, along the right side a saying about how things always seems more difficult until you actually do it. And three untranslatable words: wabi-sabi – beauty in imperfection, shinrin yoku – walking in a forest for relaxation, and ikigai – your life purpose. These are all things I incorporate in my life some way .
Some cut outs of the essence of Japanese graphic design.
The typical elements of Japanese graphic designs are strong colors, visualized personalities, and overdone character designs, all densely combined on a single outline. They cover more or less all meaningful techniques a designer should consider to get inspired.
The first thing that will capture your attention on a Japanese design is the teeming palette that brings it to life. Japanese graphic designers focus on warm reds, gold, and even black, but a deeper look through their archives reveals an even richer spectrum of colors.
Japanese culture does rely heavily on the use of color. Waking on the Harajuku streets, for instance, or the vibrant surrounding of Shibuya are the best examples for that. Japanese people are simply in love with warm hues, and they make this obvious in their graphic artwork.
The secret of Japanese graphic design’s success is that craftsmen are not afraid to overdo their work. Instead, they’re deliberately making colors clash so that the result would look more vibrant, and so that it would never go unnoticed
Japanese graphic design has another valuable secret to reveal, and that’s the unique combination of Roman and Japanese typography. The two languages may be as different as it gets, but putting them on the same sheet looks intriguing and irresistibly engaging, and not only for bilingual people
Japanese designs make heavy use of gradients – you will often see subtle and warm colors bleeding and fading one into the other, helping backgrounds become more lively and intriguing.
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