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The best part about Japanese design is that it has become so popular in western countries that it is often instantly recognizable. There are literally hundreds of different graphics that base their images off of Japanese traditional symbols and themes to create attractive designs. However, many of these feature boring and overused subjects and graphics that simply don't get the job done. They look simple, but without the characteristic elegance that Japanese style is identified with. It is the simple yet elegant elements of Japanese style that comes out in this design.
The centre figure of this graphic is a dreamy geisha girl who stands in a seductive pose with her long, flowing hair trailing out from behind her and a tattoo of some kind on her right arm. Her hair flows out into a fan pattern of light rays that seem to expand from the central female figure, and continues out until the edge of the image. Besides the central figure, there are a variety of other elements that lend to an overwhelming feeling of the sublime and the surreal. Waves of some sort of primordial sea lash up and against a system of more solid parts of the image, while fish that appear much like a carp, traditional fish in Japanese waters, jump and leap from a part of the ocean that is more still and calm. Clouds of both black and white appear in the sky above the head of the woman in the graphic, and they seem to symbolize the duality that is frequent in this sort of design. While a black disc that is reminiscent of a black sun seems to be rising of the ocean behind the woman, the sea laps at her feet and her dress seems to sweep together all the different imagery into one coherent whole.
This design is a dreamy landscape that blends a trendy style together with many different elements of a tradition that goes further back into history than one can imagine. This cool and provocative graphic is something unique and exciting, and seems to take the viewer out of the mundane, out of the ordinary, into a world with a set of rules and ideas all of its own.
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