Museum Leaflets

Here’s a staple of museum leaflets, with a very Japanese design and many examples of a vertical typography. Visit also the websites:
• The Mizuno Museum of Art
• Miho Museum
• Nezu Museum
• Otsu City Museum of History
• Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts
• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
• Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

千年の宴 Menu Card

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Monte Rosa Inc. is a large chain of restaurants, shops and brands, all over Japan and also overseas in Korea, Shanghai, Hong Kong. I brought this nice menu card from a 千年の宴 restaurant (‘Feast of Thousand Years’) located in 福井市 (Fukui). It shows the typical style of Japanese menu cards with many photos displaying perfectly arranged foods.

Museum Leaflets - The Mizuno Museum of Art, Nagano

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Here’s another listing of colorful museum leaflets. In the collcetion of 2004 I noticed a little change of the footer design with the dark-red bar - it was made more consistent through all following publications. These well-designed leaflets are indeed inviting to visit the museum.

My favorites are: the 3rd and 5th from 2003 and I also like the last of 2007. Everyone is welcome to post a comment with your favorites ...

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

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The main event of this website is the artwork of the exhibitions and of the collection. The website itself just gives the frame. If it steps back behind the artwork with an unobtrusive design, it would be any website beyond recognition and without a unique appearance. This might be the reason for the remarkable color-concept, which gets more attention on some pages, than the contents.