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as 1® Japanese Professional Illustrators – Vol. 1,
is America’s latest and greatest creative import: a book featuring
43 of Japan’s most celebrated illustrators and visual artists
with contact information all in English.
While new to America, all of our professional illustrators are recognized
as masters of their disciplines and many of them are established household-names
in Japan, including: the Hiroshi Watanabe that “Watanabe Blue”
was named after, the painter of the Japanese book covers for the Star
Wars spin off novels, Tsuyoshi Nagano, illustrator of
the Japanese covers for bestsellers like Bridget Jones’
Diary, Megumi Asakura, pastel & fashion masters Keiji Yuno & Shinichi Fukui, environmental champion Takashi Akiyama,
brand character King & Queen Norio Hikone
& Reichel Miyao, the other worldly Toshiyuki Fukuda,
the edgy Radical Suzuki, anime innovator
IMAITOONZ (of the feature film, Dead Leaves)
and the up-and-coming C.G. animation superstar Hiroshii Yoshii.
ART as 1® is honored to represent 43
of Japan’s most revered artists, as a fresh, new creative resource
for American art buyers. We at ART as 1®
truly believe that the coming together of our two cultures will provide
exciting opportunities for new and extraordinary creativity.
With offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo, ART as
1® is poised to help the creative needs of advertising
agencies, manufactures and the entertainment industries worldwide. Industry
professionals, please contact us for your complimentary 150-page catalog.
The book will be available to the general public in bookstores for $24.95
on September 1st, 2006 nationwide and is being distributed worldwide
by IPG.
ISBN 0-9776143-0-1.
“ART as 1® will serve as a great resource
to American advertising and design professionals...”
-- Vesna Petrovic, AIGA Board
Member & Founder, three design (de3sign) studio
“...I welcome their extraordinary selection of talented artists
to America.”
-- Kurt Haiman, Founder &
Sr. Partner G2 Worldwide.
“The ART as 1® book features an amazing
selection of character design, 2-D comics, digital rendering, editorial
illustration, and other styles, and is an excellent source of reference
and inspiration . . . It provides a well-chosen sampling of exciting
and up-and-coming artists from Japan.”
-- Martin Wong & Eric
Nakamura, Giant Robot
“ART as 1® fulfills a need for fresh,
powerful, and colorful imagery . . . a useful resource.”
-- Gordon Kaye, editor, Graphic
Design USA Magazine
ARTas1®
Japan Publicity, Inc.
(serving the U.S. market since 1981)
ART as 1® Los Angeles Headquarters:
Tel. 310-515-7100 • Fax. 310-515-7188
970 W. 190th St., Suite #270 • Torrance, CA 90502-1000 U.S.A.
ART as 1® New York Office:
Tel. 1-888-890-8880 • Fax. 212-504-8046
Empire State Building, 75th Floor
350 Fifth Ave., Suite #7500 • New York, NY 10118-7590 U.S.A.
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