Nakamura Shigeki. Pattern Sourcebook: Japanese Style 250 Patterns for Projects and Designs

Rockport Publishers, 2008. — 148 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1-59253-498-2A collection of traditional Japanese patterns.Pattern design has a long history on the Japanese culture.
This book presents a collection of carefully selected traditional Japanese patterns in 60 categories for use by designers and artists in their projects and personal work.
This is an inspirational and highly practical reference and sourcebook for anyone working in the area of visual art.Japan has a long heritage of traditional colors, characters, and decorative designs, which have been passed down through the ages. This book focuses on decorative designs, providing a collection of materials and accompanying documentation for approximately 60 categories and 250 examples of Japanese designs that today’s designers consider essential.
All of the images introduced in this book have been selected from among the stock of designs I have traced over the long years of my career, and they have been saved as JPEG and PSD fi les on the accompanying CD-ROM. The PSD-formatted fi les can be manipulated to modify the colors, textures, etc. of the background and foreground layers of each design using the functions of Adobe Photoshop, thus giving birth to original pieces and unlimited variation.
The commentary provided for the designs also includes a description of their histories and origins, uses, characteristics, and more. I hope that this book will be used widely as a practical Japanese-design production tool.