Cakes for Japan are a website that encourages people to hold cake events consisting of cakes that are related to Japan. I think that this is a unique way of raising money which uses creative skills. I really wish that I had thought about it! I bet it was amazing to organise it!
Other people helping the cause include Font Aid, this is open to the public and allows them to create a new typeface based around Japanese influences and designs. Here is a bit of what the public has come up with, the final typeface is still being developed and produced:
\I feel these designs are taking cliches of Japan such as what they eat in the Sushi, to the Kokeshi style dolls in the cakes and pandas in the typeface. This is what we instantly see as Japanese, along with fans. I was reading in a blog on how to make a book cover look Japanese in the English market and the answers were fans and blossoms, really obvious symbols to us. Makes you think about what is simple and what isn't. Much like the essay I am doing for Simon's module.
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