"Birdman" won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography at the 87th Academy Awards this year. Ever since the awards ceremony, everyone has been talking about the ...

Japan prides itself on each prefecture having its own distinct specialties. Sometimes it’s a different take on a similar dish, sometimes it’s something completely different, and if you ever go on a ...

Most of us have our own little hobbies, whether it's collecting cards, DVDs or even action figures. My own passion is collecting Japanese B2 gaming posters. Japanese B2 posters measure roughly around ...

A now-deleted poster for the internet sensation “Barbenheimer” has sparked controversy in Japan after it seemed to poke fun at the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, reports the South China Morning ...

Of course you’re concerned about the well-being of the Japanese people in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami, and still-unfolding nuclear crisis. But do you have the tastefully designed products to ...

I almost didn’t write this post, because the humanitarian tragedy following the earthquakes in Japan is such a sensitive, complicated situation. And designers like Signalnoise are earnestly trying to ...

In the social media age, nothing ever really dies. A poster from 2011 by the Jinja Honcho, a Shinto association, has been stirring controversy on Twitter for weeks after someone tweeted an image of it ...

Walking into the gallery of the Hoover Tower, I watched kaleidoscopic collections of Japanese propaganda posters unfold before me, luring me in with their weight of history and air of mystery. The ...

A new exhibition at Zürich’s Museum for Design showcases more than six decades of Japanese poster art, exploring changing aesthetics and attitudes towards the medium… A new exhibition at Zürich’s ...