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Forest Wisdom: Inside the Secret Network

Forest Wisdom: Inside the Secret Network

  In the animated TED-Ed video How Trees Secretly Talk to Each Other, Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard explain how trees connect through an underground network. Directed by Avi Ofer and...
talk about graphics and TV commercial of 100 years of Kewpie Mayonnaise

JAPAN TV COMMERCIAL

  The 1979 Kewpie Mayonnaise commercial still feels visually fresh, bold, and strangely modern. With real imagery arranged into a surreal form and a punch of “FOOD POWER,” it turned...
JAPAN 70's CREATIVES: The PARCO Revolution

JAPAN 70's CREATIVES: The PARCO Revolution

During the 1970s and 80s, PARCO became a defining force in Japan’s cultural evolution. Blending cutting-edge fashion, experimental art, and bold advertising, it shaped Tokyo’s creative identity and influenced youth...
Side-by-side visual of Hokusai’s Great Wave woodblock print and a modern manga panel, showing the influence of traditional Japanese graphic style on contemporary comics

From Woodcut to Manga

Left / Hokusai (1760-1849)  The detail of Iconic Wave woodcut print. Right / 20 century Manga. Below / The striking layout of Hiroshige (1797- 1858).    The Floating World in...
Forest Wisdom: Inside the Secret Network

Forest Wisdom: Inside the Secret Network

  In the animated TED-Ed video How Trees Secretly Talk to Each Other, Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard explain how trees connect through an underground network. Directed by Avi Ofer and...