Philately Fridays: Indonesia, 1970

A stamp showing Indonesia's pavilion from Expo 70 held in Osaka, Japan.

Philately Fridays: Japan, 1961

Happy Lunar New Year! Here's a bright and sharply illustrated stamp from Japan to celebrate the Year Of The Tiger in 1962.

Milk delivery boxes of Japan

In the U.S., milk delivery went out in the Leave It To Beaver era, but in Japan, millions still receive milk through a traditional delivery service. Here's just a small handful of photos of milk delivery boxes outside Japanese houses from the collection of Goemon, who shares hundreds of other milk graphic-related images.

Philately Fridays: Japan, 1982

Gorgeous early '80s futuristic typographic stamp design from Japan.

Philately Fridays: Japan, 1980

Loving the clean style and color scheme of this geography-related 1980 stamp from Japan.

Philately Fridays: Germany, 1964

Beautifully composed and stylishly illustrated stamp commemorating the Judo portion of the 1964 Summer Olympic Games held in Tokyo, Japan. This was the first year that Judo was an official Olympic event. Competing on behalf of the USA was Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who would go on to become a State Representative and then Senator for the state of Colorado. See footage of Campbell taking on Thomas Chi Hong Ong from The Philippines below.

Philately Fridays: Japan, 1970, 71, 72

One stamp commemorating Expo '70 in Osaka:

And two celebrating the Japanese postal service:

Philately Fridays: Japan, 1981

Commemorating an international conference on epilepsy and neurophysiology.

Design News covers from Japan

These industrial design magazine covers from Japan are pretty next level. Designed by the fantastic Takenobu Igarashi.

Gurafiku

I've been exploring Gurafiku, an online archive of Japanese graphic design. The site allows you to view work split up by decade and there are a lot of fantastic posters, book covers, and more collected here. Take a moment to look around. Here are a few of my favorites:


Ikko Tanaka, 1977


Yusaku Kamekura, 1968


Shigeo Fukuda, 1974


Kisho Kurokawa, 1970


1980

Japan Pavilion at the 1982 World's Fair

Here are an artist's renderings of Japan's pavilion at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, TN.


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Philately Fridays: Two from Japan

Wow, OK sorry it's been so long since I posted here. I've been coming up on a bunch of new stamps lately, so expect more regular updates from here on out! Kicking things back into gear with two nice geometric designs from Japan, one an expressive representation of the chaos of Expo '70 and another for 1980's JCI World Congress.

Philately Fridays: Expo '70

Diggin' this 4 stamp set from Italy celebrating the 1970 World's Fair, held in Osaka Japan.









...and here's Japan's Expo '70 stamp:

Three Psychedelic Posters

Here are three groovy posters designed by three different artists from three different points on the globe for three various clients. All are circa 1969/1970.


Keiichi Tanaami (Japan) for an illustrated book.
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Dieter Fix (Cologne, Germany) promoting Moroccan oranges.
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Alan Gelman (New York) for Sears.
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At the zoo

Great little logo for the Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido Japan, designed by Susumu Endo around 1967. It's perfect for this time of year - Minneapolis just had a little blast of snow last night and I feel like a reindeer could show up at any moment.

Tama National Zoo

Poster designed for Tokyo's Tama National Zoo by Yasuo Shigehara. Circa 1967ish.



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