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Yoh Nagao – Japanese Art

by Andy Ball February 27, 2010
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This is the work of Yoh Nagao. An up and coming artist who was born in 1981, grew up in Kanagawa, and currently lives in Aichi, Japan. He first came to fame when his work won the SHIFT 2008 calendar competition. He has always had a desire for Design and Art and majored in graphic [...]

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Artistic Japanese Manhole Covers

by Andy Ball February 20, 2010
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The Japanese like to bring artistic design to the most unexpected and mundane canvases. Where most people see a plain or boring necessity, the people of Japan often see an opportunity to create an interesting or unique piece of art. Following on from our post about Creative Japanese Barcodes, where Japan took the uninventive consumer [...]

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Creative Japanese Barcodes

by Andy Ball February 20, 2010
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Barcodes are often nothing more than a dull emblem of our consumer civilisation. Barcodes are seen as a necessary unwanted scar on a products artistic packaging design and the last thing you think when you look at a barcode is art. But why does it have to be this way? Japanese design company D-Barcode create [...]

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Kousuke Sugimoto

by Jacques Jones January 15, 2010
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Kousuke Sugimoto is a Japaneise animator who has branched into film making. Here is an animation music video produced independantly in 2009, directed by Kousuke and composed by Manabe Takayuki.

The animation is cool and dynamic and the music is a beautiful digital adventure.
To see more videos by Kousuke visit his YouTube Channel.

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