Mirrors extend patterns and complete typography, making this mural (hidden on the back of bookshelves next to 2nd-floor windows) appear strangely animated to passers-by on 41st street.
Kinokuniya NY graphics
2007 | 41st & 6th, Manhattan
Graphic and signage system for the New York City branch of Japan's largest bookstore. Visual motifs from New York and contemporary Japanese culture are combined, then distorted, mistranslated, and obfuscated by the artifacts of digital and print communication techonologies. Sign fixtures and environmental graphics compliment interior architecture by Kay Ngee Tan.