Showa Modern: Ad Designs, 1920-1930s business The buildings float as if

The buildings float as if we were sitting on the ocean floor – powerless to move

accompanies his first exhibition at Tate Modern and explores the last decade and a half of his extraordinary career

Additional works by contemporary artists and designers show that political awareness does not limit creativity

Latifa Echakhch

Showa Modern: Ad Designs, 1920-1930s business The buildings float as ifCutting edge works of 1920s and 1930s Japanese design that still excite and inspire. A blossoming cosmopolitan culture pervaded Taisho and Showa era Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, when new Western style establishments like bars, cafs, and boutiques lined city streets. The concept of design as a vehicle to connect people and things found expression in fresh and exuberant forms, and cities teemed with posters and other advertising media. This book