How to Wrap Five Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (761 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590306198 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This book is actually How to Wrap Five More Eggs The original How to Wrap Five Eggs was a striking hardbound book first published in English by Weatherhill and Harper and Rowe in 1967, with a foreword by George Nelson. This book is not a reprint of the 1967 book, but rather a reprint of How to Wrap Five More Eggs, first published in 1975 in connection with a Japan Society exhibit on traditional Japanese packaging, which contained much of the material from the 1967 book. Both the 1967 book and the 1975 book are difficult to obtain, and this inexpensive version . mizgilbert said so very disappointed. I owned the original hardback in color when it first came out and then lost all my possessions. When I could start looking at things again I found it had become some sort of design cult thing and had gone so high in price I would never be able to have it again. So, when I saw this I began to cry with joy and gratitude;I didn't realize it was a cheat.all black and white and no words and not the same at all, where I had thought it was finally the original reprinted in paperback. It is very hurtful. I should have l. Carol the T said Packaging Meets Art. The Japanese have raised gift and utilitarian packaging to an art form. Travelers note how they take time to carefully fold and hand over even a modest purchase such as a small bag of pastry. Quality and courtesy rule.This book features past practice through black and white photos from a now out-of-print book, updated with additions, showcasing a variety of traditional packaging. All are shown against a plain background so they stand out, more often than not just one or two items to a page. The pages are unclutt
But what we have lost for sure is what this book is all about: a once-common sense of fitness in the relationships between hand, material, use, and shape, and above all, a sense of delight in the look and feel of very ordinary, humble things. To suit the needs of super mass production, the traditional natural materials are too obstreperous and one by one we have replaced them with the docile, predicable synthetics. This classic book was originally published under the title How to Wrap Five More Eggs in 1975. What we have gained from these new materials and wonderfully complicated processes to make up for the general pollution, rush, crowding, noise, sickness, and slickness is a subject for other forums. Largely constructed of bamboo, rice
. Hideyuki Oka was one of Japan's leading graphic designers
“This work's striking full-page photos effectively portray the integration of classic Japanese aesthetics into daily life in Japan. How to Wrap Five Eggs is worth purchasing for the pictures alone.”—The Sennin Foundation Center for Japanese Cultural Arts