Poster for an exhibition of the designer’s work , 1984
Poster for a private exhibition , 1986
One-man exhibition , 1986
Shigeo Fukuda was a sculptor, graphic artist and poster designer who created optical illusions. His art pieces usually portray deception. The first Japanese designer to be inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, his work is recognizable for its simplicity and use of visual illusions.
Noh. Performance poster
Asian Performing Arts Institute, UCLA, Theater poster
Ikko Tanaka was a well-known Japanese graphic designer. The characteristic of his designs is a mixture of Japanese traditions with western modernism to produce contemporary visual expression. He rose to prominence in the graphics industry in Japan with designs that synthesized Japanese pictorial traditions with popular Western styles of typography and layout. His work symbolised the energy of Japanese graphics communications. He designed posters, corporate logos, book and magazine layouts and exhibition displays, for example the Japanese Government’s History Pavilion displays at Expo ’70, Osaka, and the Oceanic Cultural Museum displays at Ocean Expo ’75, Okinawa. He was also known for his crisp, abstract imagery, meticulous sense of colour and elimination of all inconsequential detail.
Tadanori Yokoo
Born 27 June 1936, he is a Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter who has retired in 1981. He is one of Japan's most successful and recognized designer who was influenced by film maker Akira Kurosawa and writer Yukio Mishima. His complex and multi-layered imagery is entirely original. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition for his work and was included in the 1968 "Word & Image" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He took up painting after he retired and his career continues to this day with numerous exhibitions of his paintings every year.
Tadanori Yokoo
The Wonders of Life on Earth, poster, 1965
John Silver, Theater poster, 1967
Science Fiction Movies, Film festival poster, 1975
Born 27 June 1936, he is a Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter who has retired in 1981. He is one of Japan's most successful and recognized designer who was influenced by film maker Akira Kurosawa and writer Yukio Mishima. His complex and multi-layered imagery is entirely original. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition for his work and was included in the 1968 "Word & Image" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He took up painting after he retired and his career continues to this day with numerous exhibitions of his paintings every year.
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