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Japanese Trade Publications Helped Japan Form a New Graphic Identity (2023)

[caption id="attachment_86176" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] The Complete Commercial Artist. Courtesy of Jim Heimann Collection[/caption]The years bet...

The Western world’s influence found its way into Japanese music, films, fashion, art, design, and the culture at-large so that by the 1920s, Tokyo was having its own version of the Roaring Twenties alongside Paris and New York City. Masuji’s focus on the Bauhaus, in particular, can be partly attributed to one of his close collaborators on the project, the critic and painter Nakada Sadanosuke, who visited the school in 1922 and is credited with being one of the first to write about it in the Japanese press. Furthermore, his tireless efforts to oversee this massive visual compendium provide valuable insight into a country that was steeped in centuries-old traditions but eager to embrace new technologies and Western-style influences at the same time.

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