After nearly 20 years, Japonism made a comeback and shifted the influence to America.
It became even more apparent at the Osaka World Exposition at 1970 where lots of foreign visitors got the Japanese designers to reexamine their cultural roots and to apply to their architecture, arts & crafts, and graphic design.
It is a style that took on Western images from Pop Art, comic strips and television, and emerged them with high-tech Japanese society.
Japanese graphic styles is recognisable not only by its typography or the occasional japanese visual reference. It also employs the full range of photographic and computer communication-arts tools to transform a two-dimensional surface of a poster. 3D surfaces may produce either elegant harmonies or discordant colours, random shapes and explosive images.
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