Tsunehisa Kimura (木村恒久, ''Kimura Tsunehisa''; 1928–2008) was a Japanese artist influential in graphic design.

Style

Kimura's

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imagine a surreal world of ongoing apocalypse and often showcase the encroachment of nature and natural phenomenon on man-made structures and the urban

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. His most famous ‘Visual Scandals’ series was published in book form by Parco, Tokyo in 1979.

In popular culture

Kimura provided the cover artwork to Midnight Oil's 1984 album '' Red Sails in the Sunset''. Additionally, altered versions of one of his works appear as cover art for

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's 1980 album Flying the Flag and

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's 2011 album '' Zonoscope''. Cut Copy would eventually go on to win the Artisan Award for Best Cover Art at the

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. Design commentators have drawn attention to similarities between Kimura's work and the CGI envisioning of the

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film Oblivion, particularly in the design of promotional material.

References

External links

Tsunehisa Kimura - Scanning The Digital Apocalypse
1928 births 2008 deaths Japanese artists Modern artists {{Japan-artist-stub