I featured some images from Will Schofield’s (50 Watts) collection of 1970’s and 1980’s Japanese illustration last year, but the series is too cool not to share some more. The work tends to feature distorted figures with a courageous palette of colors, reminiscent of surrealist paintings. Hope you enjoy!
“Blood maintaining life by conveying various substances,” illustration by Kazuho Itoh for “Newton,” 80s
“Falling motion,” illustration by Kazuho Itoh for “Newton,” mid-80s
Shusei Nagaoka, from Androla in Labyrinth, 1984
Masao Minami, early 70s
Shusei Nagaoka, from Androla in Labyrinth, 1984
Natsuo Noma, late 80s
Takashi Yamazaki cyber cycle 1985
Atsushi Yoshioka
50 Watts is one of the best vintage design & illustration blogs on the web. Space Teriyaki, a collection of books and catalogs on Japanese illustration and design from the 70’s and 80’s, embodies the brand of intriguing and rare content that Will Schofield has gathered.
I’ve always enjoyed Japanese illustration and have featured the likes of Kazumasa Nagai and Yusaku Kamekura before. The pieces from this era tend to share a boldness in both color and form.
If you’ve enjoyed these, you can find more at 50 Watts.
Fritz Goro was a German-born photographer known by many to be the most influential science photographer the world has ever seen. He was born in Bremen, Germany and studied at the Bauhaus school of sculpture and design. In 1933, Goro and his family fled Nazi Germany for the United States and they never looked back. For over 40 years, he captured incredibly influential science photos working for LIFE magazine and Scientific American.
Seen here is just a sample of the timeless images Mr. Goro was able to capture during his career.
Electronics, 1961.
Burning a candle in a sealed flask of oxygen on a balance shows that matter can not be destroyed, 1949.
Fetus in an artificial womb, 1965
An anesthetized monkey has its brain activity monitored, 1971.
A scientist uses a quartz rod as a light conductor to observe a frog’s organs, 1948.
Shipboard laboratory equipment used for measuring sea water to detect any traces of radioactivity after an atomic bomb test in Bikini lagoon, 1946. buy sildalis online https://cpff.ca/wp-content/languages/en/sildalis.html no prescription
Li Hui is a Chinese Installation artist who works with stainless steel, acrylics and lasers. The skeleton car above was created in 2006 for a show titled “Who’s afraid of red, amber, and green?” – a direct reference to the painting series “Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue” by American abstract expressionist Barnett Newman.
The installation (named ‘Amber’) features a full size horse skeleton, which has been etched into the acrylic race car to create a truly ethereal scene.
Jérôme Sans (director of the UCCA) writes that “Li Hui’s works explore questions of life and death, existence and transcendence, materiality and spirituality, technology and humanity. But it is his penchant for melding the organic and the inorganic that foreshadows a world in which mortal and machine have become one, making people indistinguishable from their tools.”
Here are the other two pieces from the show, “Reincarnation” and “Cage”:
Light is not a usual medium in artwork, but artists such as James Turrell have shown that it can be mastered.
In Li Hui’s own words… “Light doesn’t seem like a material that can be used in art – if you do not handle it well, the outcome will be awful. Everyone can use light in their work, but light may not always be a good material to help them express what they want to express.”
I’ll look forward to more futuristic works from Li Hui.
There are 206 bones in the human body, and Mike Henderson, an osteologist from the Museum of London, knows where they all go. Enjoy the time-lapse assembly above!
