Paperback: 24 pages
Publisher: Toho
Language: Japanese
Product Dimensions: 26 x 18.2, 29.5 x 21 cm
Release Date: 1988
Price: $100 USD (¥11,000 JPY)
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Condition: good (pre-owned copy)
The flyer has some faint corner creases, and the programme cover shows light age-related rubbing and minor wrinkling near the binding. Overall, both items remain in good condition.
This set includes the original flyer and programme for AKIRA, released in Japan in 1988. Based on the legendary manga by Katsuhiro Otomo, the film is widely regarded as a turning point in the history of Japanese animation, distinguished by its extraordinary cel animation and a production budget of approximately US$9 million.
The flyer features the iconic artwork of an unknown force consuming Neo-Tokyo, capturing the ominous atmosphere that surrounded AKIRA at the time of its release. The 24-page programme contains a synopsis of the film, a timeline of events within the story, character profiles, cast information, and other materials, offering a comprehensive overview of the film’s world. Together, these items serve as valuable documents that preserve the excitement and cultural impact of AKIRA upon its original release.
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An important 2-book set documenting the moment around 2001 when experimental graphic culture after the 1990s reached one of its peaks.
The former was produced in conjunction with TOMATO’s large-scale installation exhibition held at Laforet Harajuku in 2001. Rather than functioning as a conventional exhibition catalog, it fragments and recomposes space, typography, cinematic atmosphere, noise, photography, and abstract visual expression into a publication that feels like a direct container of TOMATO’s sensibility at the time.
The latter, created by, reads almost like a photographic novel. Based on a journey through Scandinavia toward the Arctic Circle, Lomo photography, fragmented texts, cinematic pacing, and experimental typography quietly overlap throughout the book. It remains one of the most literary and atmospheric works within TOMATO’s publications.
What connects these two books is the strong presence of a pre-standardized digital sensibility — roughness, accident, noise, low-resolution imagery, and an editorial rhythm grounded in physical and human perception.
Unlike today’s polished digital design and AI-generated imagery, these books preserve a uniquely early-2000s vision of the future shaped by human imperfection.
In recent years, publications related to 1990s London graphic design culture have been increasingly re-evaluated, yet opportunities to encounter these 2 books together have become quite rare.
TOMATO ; Real and Imaginary Flowers + Tycho’s Nova — 2 Books Set
2001年前後に刊行された、TOMATOの最重要作品集2冊セットです。
90年代以降の実験的グラフィックカルチャーがひとつの頂点に達した時期の空気感が非常に濃密に記録されています。
前者は、2001年にラフォーレ原宿で開催されたTOMATOによる大規模インスタレーション展にあわせて制作された作品集です。単なる展覧会図録ではなく、空間、タイポグラフィ、映像感覚、ノイズ、写真、抽象表現などが断片的に編集されており、当時のTOMATOの感覚そのものを封じ込めたような内容になっています。
一方、後者は による写真小説のような作品で、北欧から北極圏へ向かう旅をベースに、Lomo写真、断片的な文章、映画的な編集、実験的タイポグラフィが静かに重なり合っています。TOMATO作品の中でも特に文学性と空気感の強い一冊です。
この2冊に共通しているのは、まだデジタル表現が均質化される前の、
粗さ、偶発性、ノイズ、低解像度、身体感覚を伴った編集感覚が強く残っていることです。
現在の洗練されたデジタルデザインやAI生成イメージとは異なる、“人間的な不完全さ”を含んだ2000年前後特有の未来感が非常に濃密に記録されています。
近年、90年代のロンドン・グラフィックデザイン周辺の出版物は再評価が進んでいますが、この2冊を揃った状態で見かける機会はかなり少なくなっていると思います。