Book Description
Over 250 readily usable, royalty-free, authentic Japanese designs -- from ceramics, textiles, more. Includes florals, demons, animals, geometrics, more.
Author : Joseph D'Addetta
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486246299
Over 250 readily usable, royalty-free, authentic Japanese designs -- from ceramics, textiles, more. Includes florals, demons, animals, geometrics, more.
Author : Clarence Hornung
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486252434
Family crests (mon) have been a Japanese tradition since the eleventh century, when they decorated the costumes and carriages of courtiers. Later, they were used to identify warriors on the battlefield, as heraldic decorations on formal costumes, and as ornament on the kimonos of the common people. Small, compact, and graceful, with a strong sense of style, crest designs are ideal for spot illustrations, as logos, or for any graphic purpose requiring the classic simplicity, purity, and strength of Japanese design. This volume presents a total of 540 permission-free motifs, carefully selected for graphic impact and usefulness from several thousand crests known to exist. Featured are a wide variety of stylized designs depicting plants, animals, natural phenomena, geometric shapes, and manufactured objects.Among the subjects included in this selection are such traditional Japanese motifs as bamboo, crane, lightning, cherry blossom, peony, plum blossom, wave, rice, circle, and hollyhock. Immensely useful, this volume of permission-free designs is not only an invaluable source of graphic material for artists, designers, and craftspeople, but a fascinating picture book of Japanese culture.
Author : Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 1983-02-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486244350
360 traditional Japanese designs and motifs redrawn in clean, crisp black-and-white, royalty-free illustrations.
Author : Matsuya Company
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486155307
Definitive catalogue of Japanese heraldic crests featuring almost unlimited variety of plant, animal, bird, and geometric forms, from "wild goose" to "folding fan" to "mountain and mist," each with dozens of variations. 4,260 illustrations.
Author : Sendpoints
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 9789887928409
This book presents over 600 traditional Japanese motifs, ranging from ukiyo-e, ghost stories, kamon and Noh plays to traditional patterns, which include introductions of their cultural backgrounds. It also showcases outstanding graphic works inspired by and integrated with specific motifs, and features interviews with distinguished designers, aiming to provide an insight into the traditional Japanese culture through contemporary design.
Author : Sadao Hibi
Publisher : Kodansha International
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 9784770026897
A beautiful primer for the fundamentals of pattern in Japanese Art, including background information on the traditional significance and meaning of motifs.
Author : Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486157644
This versatile collection of 360 traditional Japanese designs and motifs are drawn in clean, crisp, black-and-white lines while still preserving the original spirit and subtlety of detail.
Author : Stone Bridge Press
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 1933330309
Find the beauty and meaning of over 850 family crests found in Japanese tradition
Author : Isao Honda
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486155846
Over 1,700 compact, graceful designs — a traditional part of many Japanese family histories — are featured in this handsome, versatile collection. Depicting plant, leaf, animal, and fan designs in circular motifs; astronomical images, and more, the authentic, royalty-free crests are ideal for use as spot illustrations in a variety of graphic projects.
Author : John W. Dower
Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780834802292
The Elements of Japanese Design is a library of traditional Japanese design motifs in the form of more than 2,700 family crests ( mon) compiled and drawn by a Kyoto publisher and bookseller early in the twentieth century, and selected and interpreted by John Dower, a leading American scholar of Japan. First used for identification on the battlefield beginning in the twelfth century, mon developed into symbols of family pride and fortune and quintessential expressions of the Japanese design sensibility--especially in their economy of means, exquisite detailing, and boldness of composition. The motifs employed in these family crests are also a fascinating window into the symbolic system of traditional Japan, which drew from a rich palette of natural phenomena, plants, animals, abstract devices, and manmade objects. This book will be a source of pleasure and inspiration to anyone interested in the basic elements of Japanese design, and of valuable information to anyone wishing to know more about the remarkable culture that produced it.