Street Graphics Tokyo
by Barry Dawson

Tokyo's vibrant street graphics combine ancient tradition, 20th-century mass production and a 21st-century urban vision that is uniquely Japanese. Ridley Scott's futuristic film Blade Runner was inspired by Tokyo's neon nightscape, where a fashionable department store doubles as a giant digital TV screen, featuring life-size dinosaurs in Godzilla's hometown. Here, Asian street style meets Western consumerism in a colourful clash of imagery that renders the familiar strange and the strange bizarre. Cartoon characters can signify the police or pornography. Fashion statements are derived from diverse sources Ð ancient Egypt or even a hospital operating theatre. Slot machines vend erotica; pets and cops are robots; tempting dishes of sushi turn out to be inedible plastic models. . .

"Semiotic sushi É there's much to amuse, and confuse, in Dawson's collection of posters, signs, illustrations and fashions from a world turned upside down"
--The Independent Magazine

ZZ3796    Street Graphics Tokyo                                 $19.95

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