Ikko Tanaka — Morisawa Photosetting | Japanese Typography Fine Art Print

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Ikko Tanaka — Morisawa Photosetting | Japanese Typography Fine Art PrintIkko Tanaka (19302002) was one of Japan's most influential graphic designers, known for his synthesis of Japanese visual tradition and Western Modernist typography. His work for Morisawa, the Japanese type foundry, achieved a spare, luminous quality that elevated typography to fine art. Tanaka's designs bridge Swiss International Style precision and Japanese aesthetics in a voice uniquely his own. Printed as a museum grade gicle on Hahnemhle fine art

hangs in the Gunma Museum of Art and remains one of the most extraordinary cultural artefacts of the Meiji encounter with Western art — a Buddhist subject rendered with European academic grandeur

It stands alongside his Hitchcock work as proof that a film poster can be a work of art in its own right

reproduced by designers and collectors ever since their first publication

William Stanley Haseltine (1835–1900) was an American luminist painter renowned for his meticulous depictions of coastal light and rock formations on the New England and Italian coasts

sought to render the natural world with both fidelity and grandeur

His works are distinguished by their scientific precision and atmospheric luminosity in the tradition of the Hudson River School

McKnight Kauffer (1890–1954) was an American-born

craftsmanship

Nothing between you and the image

it dissolved the boundary between fine art and functional design

Salomon Corrodi (1810–1892) was an Italian-Swiss landscape and Orientalist painter whose luminous views of Venice

in any light

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