is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe, Design Chair at Wildcard and co-founder of Kidpost. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired by Etsy, Inc.), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children. Refer to the advertising and sponsorship page for inquiries.
+Japanese Posters for Western Films
![Japanese Poster for “Alfie”](http://web.archive.org./web/20171121234409im_/https://www.subtraction.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-05-25-aflie-poster-jp.png)
![Japanese Poster for “Fahrenheit 451”](http://web.archive.org./web/20171121234409im_/https://www.subtraction.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-05-25-fahrenheit-451-poster-jp.png)
![Japanese Poster for “Hud”](http://web.archive.org./web/20171121234409im_/https://www.subtraction.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-05-25-hud-poster-jp.png)
![Japanese Poster for “Bullitt”](http://web.archive.org./web/20171121234409im_/https://www.subtraction.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-05-25-bullitt-poster-jp.png)
I really enjoyed these Japanese posters for Western films from the 1960s collected over at the retro site Voices of East Anglia. The visual sensibilities are fascinating—generally more modern and graphical than I associate with these pictures, but sometimes weirdly at odds with their actual content. The poster for the Paul Newman film “Hud,” for instance, is stunning from a design perspective, but it seems fairly alien to the experience of actually watching that movie. See a few more and explore the many other troves of vintage goodness at voicesofeastanglia.com.
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