Takahiro Kurashima – Poemotion.

© Takahiro Kurashima / Lars Müller Publishers

The elegant interactive moving optics book Poemotion by Japanese graphic designer Takahiro Kurashima will soon have a color sequel due out this October. Additionally, Kurashima’s original minimalist Poemotion in black and white is coming out in a hardback in October. Both works are published by world renown Swiss publishing house Lars Müller Publishers. More information can be found here and here.

Below are short films showcasing the original interactive Poemotion book:

Poemotion film from Glen Dixon

A short film adaptation of Takahiro Kurashima’s award winning book, Poemotion. Written, narrated and produced by Glenn Dixon. Music courtesy of Moby Gratis. Original artwork by Takahiro Kurashima. All credit to the original artists.

Poemotion / Takahiro Kurashima film from Slant Gallery

The way to see a new world.

Stillness exists in motion.
Motion lives in stillness.
Stillness is not the only thing one sees,
nor is motion the only thing.
In between stillness and motion, a new vision rises.
Like in between thoughts and action, one finds a new vision.
From a new vision, comes a new force that generates a new world.
Poemotion is the way to see a new world.

Text: Shunsuke Iwai & Woog / Music: Eisuke Mochizuki / Movie: Seiji Himura

© Takahiro Kurashima / Lars Müller Publishers

The abstract graphic patterns in this slim volume start to move as soon as the reader overlays them with the special film enclosed: moiré effects create complex shapes, make circles start to spin, and set graphic patterns vibrating. New in Poemotion 2 is the use of color. The observer discovers playfully how optical overlaps between colorful figures and shapes come about, are set in motion, and then disappear again.

17 x 23 cm, 6 ¾ x 9 in, 64 pages, 30 illustrations, hardcover with moiré film

( Lars Müller Publishers )

© Takahiro Kurashima / Lars Müller Publishers

Inspired by Seesaw, an earlier book from Lars Müller Publishers, in a playful and at the same time minimalist way the Japanese designer Takahiro Kurashima established with Poemotion 1 a link to the motif of a “School of Seeing” that has long occupied a special place in the publisher’s program. His bestseller is now available in a competitively priced yet high quality hardcover edition.

17 x 23 cm, 6 ¾ x 9 in, 64 pages, 30 illustrations, hardcover with moiré film (2013)

( Lars Müller Publishers )

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