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Title：Yusuke Nakamura Collection: NOW
Original Title: Now: Paintings by Yusuke Nakamura
English Title：Now: Yusuke Nakamura Illustration Art Works
Author: Nakamura Yusuke (Nakamura Yusuke)
Publisher: Asuka News Agency
Publication Date: 2014-12-22
Language: Japanese
ISBN10: 4864103844
ISBN13：9784864103848
Binding：Paperback / 223 pages / 28 x 20.5 x 1.12 cm / Normal grade / Full color printing
Price：JPY￥2,778

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Following the "Blue"After that, Yusuke Nakamura's second collection of paintings.

The same is a fairly thick one, and the specifications are more square than the previous one.Blue"It's a lot bigger, and the included works are more colorful!

The cover is gilded, and each animal on the cover is very interesting with childhood objects. I especially like the gilding effect of the medal on the lion’s mouth (on the back cover).

(The red circle of "NOW" is the Japanese flag, right? XD)

This book continues to include the album cover of "ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION". Yusuke Nakamura is their queen album cover artist!

There is an 8-page comic (the crayon-style dinosaur is very cute), and I am curious about how it is actually used in the album design~

The content spans album covers, book illustrations, character designs, and Nakamura paintings, etc. It also includes "Yusuke Nakamura"Reasoning should be after dinner", "The spring night is short, let's move on the girl!Series of cover pictures drawn by literary works such as ”.

You can often find a lot of details and creative objects from a piece of work!

Contrasting and bright colors are hard to remember~

An extra separate booklet is bound at the end, which is a detailed introduction to the works in this album, very carefully~

Official Introduction

The second album in 5 years!

Following the first album "Blue" released in 2009, the super-popular illustrator Yusuke Nakamura has released the second album "NOW", which is 5 years old, and includes music and books throughout the 6 years from 2008 to 2014. , Animation, art exhibitions, cooperative activities and other types of creation.

For example, the CD cover of the Japanese rock band Asia Kungfu generation, the cover of the novel "The Reasoning Is After Dinner" by the writer Atsushi Higashikawa, and the novel "The Spring Festival Is Short, Let's Go Girl!" by the writer Morimi Tomihiko! "Bunku novel cover and "Fourfolds and a half mythology series" animation version of the original character plan, the image of the face exhibition "PORTRATION", UNIQLO "UT" T-shirt illustration, the movie "Goldfish of the Sea" poster, the series of illustrations in "Quarterly S", There are a total of 253 works including the cover of "KIRARA", and the explanations of these works are attached in the form of an appendix.

Content

005 – MUSIC
069 – BOOK
147 – CHARACTER
171 – PORTRAIT
193 – OTHER

About the Author

Nakamura Yusuke

An illustrator born in Hyogo, Japan. His father is an architect and his mother is a fashion designer. Perhaps because of his family background, his illustrations are unique in composition, color matching and drawn characters, and also because of their colorfulness. His distinctive style has made him very popular both in Japan and overseas. In 2011, he was invited to Taiwan to participate in the International Book Fair. The fans in the audience formed Nakamura fever, which caused a whirlwind topic of illustration.

Yusuke Nakamura was influenced by Japanese animation and games since he was a child. After graduating from Osaka University of the Arts in 2000, he began to work in illustration with his university classmates. After his first solo exhibition, he used bright colors and excellent composition to arouse discussions, and then gradually began to work in music. , Literary and animation illustration design. The personal album alone has sales of nearly 100,000 copies, and its charm cannot be underestimated!

Not only did he serve as cover illustration for music albums, Nakamura also drew book covers for writers such as Morimi Tomihiko and Higashikawa Atsukiya. In recent years, he has also stepped into the field of CDs and textbooks.