Class Schedule Listing - 2022 Spring (Apr 26, 2024) |
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| Japanese Graphic Design History - 46239 - ARTH 2800 - 801 | ||||||||||||||
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Notes: An extra media fee of 4,500 yen is required. Field trips are mandatory in this class. Topical Section Description: Japanese Graphic Design History explores the rise and development of commercial art and advertising art into graphic design in the Japanese context from the Meiji Restoration to the contemporary moment. This course examines the aesthetic, market-based and sociopolitical milestones that have influenced design while simultaneously exploring the pantheon of both renowned and underexplored Japanese graphic designers. Students will read relevant slices of design theory—the history, criticism and literature—from Asia, Europe and the Americas in order to contextualize Japanese Graphic Design History and the localized developments of Modernism, Postmodernism and the current Neoliberal Era. This course approaches the analysis of graphic design from an all-encompassing perspective, examining the design of everyday commercially designed objects such as matchbooks to posters for cinema and theater to the design of Japanese typefaces to the design of corporate identities. Students will gain a nuanced understanding of why and how our designed world looks the way it does through history-rich talks, graphic design studio visits with famous graphic designers, and trips to graphic design exhibitions. This class is the lone course offered globally that explores the robust history of Japanese Graphic Design in total.
Associated Term: 2022 Spring Registration Dates: Oct 31, 2021 to Jan 20, 2022 Registration Levels: Graduate, NonDegree Continuing Undergrad, Undergraduate Japan Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Online w/ req virtual meetings Instructional Method Credit Hours: 4.000 Seats Available: 8
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