HIROSHI NAGAI
Palm Street Songs (book)
HIROSHI NAGAI - Palm Street Songs
Product information
| Publisher | 復刊ドットコム |
| Publication date | August 25, 2025 |
| Language | Japanese |
| Print length | 160 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 4835459628 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-4835459622 |
| Item Weight | 170 g |
| Dimensions | 5.04 x 0.51 x 7.17 inches |
English translation of description:
Thinking of the west coast at that time, ""Summertune" can be heard from the page
A pocket-sized collection of works containing all 70 works, including unpublished works, is born!!
Hiroshi Nagai, an illustrator who has been active on the front line since the 1970s.
The large sky, the city without people, and the seaside scenery are like stage equipment, expressing a nostalgic and refreshing summer atmosphere.
"At some point, my picture became a record jacket"
As it is said, starting with the jacket work of the immortal masterpiece "A LONG VACATION" (Eiichi Otaki), many of his works have been used in jackets and advertisements for music works, and have been widely popular.
Nagai has been drawing consistently since he was young, and it is a landscape with palm trees.
The existence of this palm tree is indispensable in works such as poolside, modernist houses, and night views, which are representative works. It is a unique technique that expresses the intensity of sunlight by drawing a dark shadow of palm trees, and Nagai himself says, "In my poolside paintings, palm trees always cast shadows."
The palm trees, sometimes quietly, sometimes blown by the wind, and produce the "West Coast" in the screen are iconic for Nagai's works.
In the production, we once again reconstructed the works of "West Coast Culture", which has now become commonplace, such as "surfing", "skateboarding", "jogging" and "drive-in", and focus on the landscape with palm trees (= Palm tree) This collection of works "Palm Street Songs" was edited and designed.
Using rough paper materials, we adopt a four-six-format size that is easy to carry with overseas paperbacks in mind. We laid out more than 70 Palm trees in an unprecedented volume of 160 pages in total.
Yoxxx, who has worked on many Nagai works, is in charge of the design.
If you rewind the page, the Palm tree is drawn in various scenes...
Please find one of your own in this book.
▼Features of this book
128 x 188 mm, ordinary, 160-page monograph.
There is no cover attached.
(C) Hiroshi Nagai 2025