All over the world the street has become a public art gallery of visual icons, each city with permanent collections and temporary exhibits. Tokyo's vibrant street graphics combine ancient traditions, 20th-century mass production and a 21st-century urban vision that is uniquely Japanese. Asian street style meets Western consumerism in a colourful clash of imagery, cartoon characters advertise the police or sexual services, slot machines sell erotica, pets and cops are robots and tower blocks double as giant digital TV screens. Barry Dawson's photographic vision of Tokyo forms a creative reference for students and practitioners of design and an offbeat pictorial guide for visitors.
- ISBN10 0500283796
- ISBN13 9780500283790
- Publish Date 7 October 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 June 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 112
- Language English