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the one insight missing from this otherwise decent piece was that "the look" that almost all Japanese TV has had, basically from the 1980s. large swaths of bitm
by ricktdotorg 3y ago
the one insight missing from this otherwise decent piece was that "the look" that almost all Japanese TV has had, basically from the 1980s. large swaths of bitmapped text in garish colours and fonts splashed across many TV programmes, very often you'll see the heads of commentators superimposed, also with text. i'd say the "common" graphic design style of much of 1980s+ JP TV has a large bearing on how JP sites are used, perceived and "expected" to be now.
[edit: i work for a JP co in USA that deals with a lot of JP lang sites]
- my12parsecs 3y agoTV has been (or at least had been) at the center of Japanese media and culture for decades so it must have influenced quite a lot. There's also all the other stuff in Japan from magazines to billboards and the signs you see out on the street that are just as wacky and crammed. Japanese design is super crammed in general, and I think some of it comes down to just having less space relative to the number of people and things around, so the design has to be crammed on stuff like billboards and advertisements.