Graphic Design: Japanese designer Shun Sasaki turns typography on its head!

Just when you think you’ve seen everything typography has to offer – bacon, for example, or some of the wilder creations Sam Winston has created, you stumble happily across the type design of a Japanese designer and everything gets turned on its head. Because not speaking Japanese I have absolutely no idea what these bold, graphic compositions mean, but in spite of all my linguistic inadequacies, I still find myself inexplicably drawn to them. The new combinations of lines and forms presents a whole new world as far as type design is concerned, and designer Shun Sasaki is taking full advantage of it, presenting unashamedly vivid colour combinations, and carrying over her myriad Japanese references to the equally fascinating examples of type design in English. Take that grid and throw it to the back of the cupboard, Shun has no need of it.