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Author:by Letterform Archive
Print length:40
Publication date:15 April 2025

Description:
This set of 40 postcards features 20 favourite designs from our best-selling title ‘The Complete Commercial Artist’, a spectacular sourcebook of Deco-era Japanese design. The colourful selections featured in this stationery set include a dashing Dalmatian and handsome hat rack, as well as designs for radios and pens, adorable cat-shaped arches, geometric character designs and modernist illustrations with jazz performers and bob-haired women prepping for a night on the town.Launched in the late 1920s, iThe Complete Commercial Artist/i (IGendai shogyo bijutsu zenshu/I) showcased work by Japan’s early design visionaries in 24 volumes discussing posters, window displays, lighted signs and more.With artwork by Sugiura Hisui, Murayama Tomoyoshi, Hamada Masuji and other leading graphic artists of the era, these retro postcards deliver a pop of mailable moderne in a keepsake box.