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Tag Archives: Kazumasa Nagai
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL AND THE OCEAN OF INVENTION
Sometimes vacation travel carries us farther than we expect. Our visit to Cape Breton began with the village of Baddeck which overlooks the estate of Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) and counts among its many folksy attractions the in fact remarkably non-folksy museum … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Illustrators, Industrial Design, Modernist Posters&Graphics, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists
Tagged Alexander Graham Bell Museum, Donald Brun, Kazumasa Nagai, tetrahedron, vintage aviation posters, vintage hydrofoil posters, vintage telephone posters
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APPRECIATING SOME OF OUR BEST !
We’re rounding out the year of design blogs with a fond farewell to some vintage graphics sold in 2015. They’re a varied array; but each has a kick all its own! http://www.idesirevintageposters.com/travel.html
Posted in Art Deco Posters&Graphics, Modernist Posters&Graphics, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists, Surrealist Posters&Graphics
Tagged Canadian vintage travel posters, French vintage pochoir, Kazumasa Nagai, Lucien Boucher, Vintage Advertising Fans, vintage artistic magazine, Vintage beverage posters, vintage Italian posters, vintage Swiss posters, vintage war posters, year end review
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GRAPHIC CIVILIZATION AND WILD ANIMALS
ggg Antelope 1989;Kazumasa Nagai;41″x29″ It might be a good idea to begin our embrace of original vintage poster design’s focus upon animals, by way of a creature’s-eye-view of what is thrilling. The work shown above, Kazumasa Nagai’s reverie on the … Continue reading
Posted in Art Nouveau/Belle Époque Posters&Graphics, Avant-Garde Posters&Graphics, Illustration Art, Illustrators, Modernist Posters&Graphics, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists
Tagged Bernard Villemot, Franco Mosca, Kazumasa Nagai, Sikker Hansen, Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen, vintage animal posters, vintage French posters, vintage Italian posters, vintage Japanese posters
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SURREALIST GRAPHIC ART—BIGGER THAN YOU THINK!
We’ve gotten together before, on this blog site, to mutually marvel at the impact of original vintage poster art with a Surrealist twist, as an ardent exponent of some of the most incisive reflections upon the subject and lifeline of … Continue reading
Posted in Avant-Garde Posters&Graphics, Current Events, Poster&Graphic Art, Poster&Graphic Artists, Surrealist Posters&Graphics
Tagged Arpad Elfer, Art Gallery of Ontario, contemporary film, contemporary issues, Jean Cocteau, Jonathan Glazer, Kazumasa Nagai, La Belle et la Bete, Rene Magritte, urbanity
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DOORS OPEN TORONTO—OPENING OUR EYES!
Toronto’s recent building boom has galvanized, as never before those living here to try to understand the riches of design skills and efforts going into all this change. Consequently, the May weekend festival of visits to architectural highlights, called DOORS … Continue reading