This book focuses on the graphic works created by Yumeji Takehisa, a legendary Japanese artist and designer, and presents his such works as illustrations for books, editorial designs for magazines, drawing, typography and more.Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) is a painter known for his Japanese-style of beautiful woman. He is also a pioneer as a graphic designer with his works in advertisement, magazine and book during Taisho era and early Showa era in Japan.

Lisa Larson’s talent as a ceramic artist was found by a leading Swedish ceramic artist Stig Lindberg, and Lisa developed it since then. She worked as a designer for Gustavsberg, an established ceramic manufacture in Sweden, for 25 years. She is still creating her new ceramic works in her daily life even today at the age of 77. This book introduces not only her ceramic works but also her life style with beautiful photographs.This is a book for ceramic or craftwork lovers and those who are interested in Swedish designs. Even those who don’t know who is Lisa Larson will enjoy this book.

A new title in the traditional patterns series along with “Wave, Cloud, Pine”, “Flower, Bird”, and “Animal, Bird, Insect, Fish”, this book shows another Japanese traditional motif, the cherry blossom. About 220 works are featured in the book dating from the 8th century through the 20th century including such artist as Hiroshige and Taikan Yokoyama.

Illustration is one of the significant factors these days for any kind of advertising such as posters, newspaper ads, magazine ads, catalogs, pamphlets, brochures, public relations magazines, direct mails and packages. Illustration tells more than real photography and conveys a powerful message to the target audience. This book showcases successful examples of graphic design to shows unlimited creative possibilities, to accentuate a strong image and contribute to create its original world that people could share or to help understand how Illustration explains well a complicated service or product on a step-by-step basis.

This book introduces graphic design works which recaptures such images as secure-feeling, heart-warming, kind, brisk, feeling good, comfortable and relaxing, representing harmonious coexistence between nature and humans. By surrounding negative aspects and images, people are likely to see a “natural style”, “healing” or “earth-friendly” images in companies, products and brand images these days. A variety of approaches can be used for visual communications to meet those demands by using pictures capturing images of light air, by showing illustrations and materials representing plain and heart-warming images, or by dominating images in earth-toned colors. It’s a great reference not only for graphic designers but also for marketing specialists and those who are involved in the visual projects and consider visual strategies to approach those huge market demands.

This book will present pretty, attractive, and fashionable selected high-quality package designs by product category. You can see the beauty & healthcare industries as a treasury of the design that catch women’s heart. The title will help all professionals’ creativities not only who engage in product package designs, but also who are interested in the designs targeting women in various fields.

Following one of our bestsellers, “The Traditional Colors of Japan,” this book is a sister book focusing on “French” colors. Grouped by color tone such as red, blue, green, yellow, brown, gold, silver and such, this title shows about 250 colors, each of which has something to do with the French tradition, fashion, art and culture. For example; Moulin rouge Red, Provence yellow, Absinthe green, Maijorelle blue, Saint Laurent pink, and etc. Accompanied by the related photography, each color is presented with the text describing in which occasion each color was initially produced by which and how it is used today. In addition to visual presentation of each color, two color combinations grouped by seasons; Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter are included as supplementary pages. CMYK and RGB data of each color are put together in the back pages.

Following “Illustration Book Pro 01,” this second volume presents more than 1,000 updated works by about 150 of the hottest illustrators in Japan. About 75 illustrators are renewed in the new book. Artworks are grouped by illustrators and accompanied by portrait, profile and related website address. Forwarded by Adrian Shaughnessy, editor of a UK illustration magazine Varoom and the author of “How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul.”

This book presents the stationeries and self-promotional tools of design offices, creative agencies, photo studio, stylists’ office, illustrators’ offices and architects offices along with snap shots of their work environments. Those well-designed business cards, envelopes, letterheads, cannot only be used for a promotional purpose but also represent creators’ originalities and principles, which shows the intimate connection with their stationeries and work offices. Many creators and professionals must enjoy the book by discovering a great example with every turn of the pages. It’s a good resource for opening a new office and is full of ideas for self-promotions.

This book introduces about 97 shops in Paris, which is an inseparable part of Paris and its culture. Featured shops do not only contribute to fashion, arts and popular culture, but also play as a vital part of daily lives. This title shows shop designs and graphic tools of those shops such as a contemporary café and/or restaurant being combined well with traditional design, a rococo style variety shop in a romantic setting and trendy boutiques, which function as a major role in Paris to draw millions of visitors each year. This book is what designers, creators and professionals should keep as a great reference along with the London edition,"Shop Image Graphics in London" (ISBN:978-4-89444-583-3)