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Loads of fun illustration and design in this Vintage Japanese Ads Flickr set.

Chris Battle is having a couple of auctions through eBay Giving Works to benefit Give2Asia. Chris: “They’re for 2 additional Tron Quorra prints that were featured in Q-Pop’s Help Japan show out here in L.A. last month. Since the quickly organized Q-Pop show was unable to offer international sales thru their online store, I decided to offer these extra prints on eBay to allow some of my overseas fans (Some of whom contacted me about their inability to buy the Q-Pop pieces) to get in on the action.  The auctions just went live this evening, and will end May 1st @ 9:00 PM.”

The two Quorra auctions are here (blue) and here (red).

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Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Scenes From the Tsunami (From New York Times OP-Art page)

Anime News Network has reported that veteran producer and animator Hiroshi Kakoi died in the recent earthquake that has stricken Japan. A a key animator on the original Macross TV series and later a producer on Macross II: Lovers Again, he is survived by his wife Kumiko. As with all the thousands that have died and gone missing in this terrible natural disaster, our thoughts are with them and the families they left behind. (via Mecha Damashii » Blog Archive » News: Hiroshi Kakoi dies in earthquake)

YORIKO YOSHIDA - Asialphabet

Artist Yoriko Yoshida has made a typographic tribute to Japan, illustrating the letters of the Roman alphabet out of Japanese icons and imagery.

(via Pink Tentacle, who shamelessly reproduce every single image, when linking to the artist’s site will do just nicely… ahem)

Anatomical illustrations from Edo-period Japan

Pink Tentacle does it again, providing a huge collection of wonderful 18th Century anatomy drawings from Japan.