Showa Modern: 1920s–30s Japanese Sign & Store Design (compact edition)

Price:: 1,600 yen (JPY)

Size:: 148 × 105 × 18 mm, 185 g

Pages:: 264

Binding:: softcover

Release date:: 20251101

ISBN:: 978-4-86152-994-8 C0070

Japanese

Nostalgic yet novel: designs from a century ago.

From signs and shop windows to street displays and original lettering, this book introduces more than 200 examples of Japanese design from the 1920s and 1930s. During this exciting time of westernization and urban transformation celebrated today as the age of “Showa Modern,” Western-style cafés, bars, and boutiques lined the streets and cosmopolitan culture blossomed, with the designs on these pages, too, playing their part as key elements of the new cityscapes. Witness the imagination and diverse appeal of the design pioneers who worked during this glamorous era.

Featured
Signs, commercial street displays, shop windows, storefronts and interiors, lettering and layout designs

Contributors
Hirayama Asako (author and designer)
Ito Yu (specially appointed professor, Kyoto Seika University International Manga Research Center)