Book By Its Cover » Chewing Gum’s Wrapping Paper Collection

7.16.07

Yoshio Kozuchi

I always thought the best graphic design job would be to get to design a candy wrapper. This is a book of Japanese chewing gum wrappers. They are bright and fun and make me want to rot my teeth out. There’s lots of weird character art and some painted spacecrafts among tons of great 1950s style typography and graphic elements. It’s just a really enjoyable book to flip through. I got this book at the big Japanese bookstore in NY- Kinokuniya.
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5 Comments

07/16/07 1:00pm

ms. spinach wrote

oooooh. cool! i love random japanese books. could we have the isbn number please?

07/16/07 1:05pm

julia wrote

ISBN4-89444-401-1

07/17/07 2:00pm

Sarah wrote

I’ve been reading your blog for a while now and I love all the interesting books you find! I wish I had the money to buy all of them…

07/24/07 1:59pm

cruststation wrote

Oh gosh, I’m in *love*.

08/4/07 11:44pm

mike wrote

this book is my white whale! I saw it several years ago on a japanese books website and searched for days (online) to find it. And here it is again, and again I can’t find it online. Thanks for rubbing it in that you found a copy!

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