Like pretty much every graphic designer, I’m fascinated by graphic design from other cultures – how seemingly incomprehensible glyphs and images combine to create a message. The message doesn’t really have to be understood, I guess, just look good. Or interesting… đ
(Via Design daily news.)
Pink Tentacle gathered a great set of vintage graphic design examples from Japan, take a look there for some more.
Echoes off an Impossible Planet 
Those are amazing. It always fascinates me to know that they did those kinds of amazing pieces without computers. Great post!
Beautiful stuff!
Reading Valerie’s comment: it reminded me of an encounter I set up some years ago between a graphic designer who I’d known for a round a century and a half, and a young computer graphics operator: the brief was for them to come up with a logo/theme for a conference. Conversation went as follows:
She (young graphic op.-looking for software compatibility): what do you use?
He(traditionlal graphic designer): magic markers.
She: I’ve never used that.
Once she got over the fact that he actually drew designs they got on famously- and the end result was great example of old and new technology meeting without arguing!!