Born in 1929, Kazumasa Nagai is an award winning Japanese designer who has used traditional Japanese artistic styles and values in his work throughout his long career. He communicates his messages using simplicity, elegance, texture and color. He has also been very involved in designing for environmental activism and design.
I found his works really brilliant and all designers should be inspired or taught by them. The use of geometry and rules becomes more intelligible by studying him. I was thrilled with his work. I hope you love it too.
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| Kazumasa Nagai Exhibition, 1968 |
Here is a collection of posters from the 1960s and 1970s.
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| Kōrakuen Jumbo Pool, 1973 |
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| Growth – Life Science Library, 1966 |
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| Toshiba IC, 1967 |
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| The Mind – Life Science Library, 1965 |
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| Asahi Steinie, 1965 |
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| Cat and Mouse, 1969 |
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| We Clean Smokers (Poster for Prince Lighters), 1974 |
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| gq, 1974 |
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| Lilycolor, 1974 |
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| We Clean Smokers (Poster for Prince Lighters), 1974 |
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| We Clean Smokers (Poster for Prince Lighters), 1974 |
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| Kazumasa Nagai Exhibition, 1975 |
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| Identity, 1976 |
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| Prince Lighters, 1974 |
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| Prince Lighters, 1974 |
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| No More War, 1970 |
Sources:
Pink Tentacle (from the book Posters by Kazumasa Nagai (published by Kawade Shobo, 1976) and
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Great post!
Small correction: the 3rd poster is, in fact, by Shigeo Fukuda.
Harvey, yes, you are right!! Such a mistake! I will take this out.