As the country’s economic system has transformed over the past decade, hand-designed graphics have all but disappeared from North Korea, replaced, as it has in the rest of the world, by computer-generated work.

Hoping to preserve what he calls this “Golden Age”, Nicholas Bonner, a co-founder of the Koryo Tours travel company and a frequent visitor to North Korea since 1993, has released a book: “Made in North Korea: Graphics from Everyday Life.”

A comprehensive collection of North Korean graphic ephemera, the book covers a variety of hand-designed graphic elements for everyday consumer products, as well as postcards  – many unrelated