Special feature: Graphic design: The attitudes of 21 new generation designers
This special feature, "The Eyes of Graphic Design," focuses primarily on the practices and thinking of Japanese graphic designers born in the late 1980s.
A major theme of the exhibition is what designers are thinking and where they are heading next as they try to establish themselves in a time of changing values, with social media and other changes in the communications environment, as well as political instability and economic turmoil both at home and abroad, globalization, major disasters such as the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the Olympic emblem issue.
The "me" in the title refers to the "eyes" of the featured designers as they look at things, the "eyes" that are the central presence in each of their movements, the "buds" that emerge above the ground, and the "grain" found in chaotic states such as the grain of wood or the tides. Just as the hiragana "me" is the cursive form of the kanji "woman," it also refers to the female hand = kana-like attribute of Japanese culture that has risen up in opposition to the global cultures of each era, from kanji culture to Western culture.
These very implications are both possibilities and challenges that can be foreseen from their activities.
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IDEA No.377 April 2017 issue | Seibundo Shinkosha Co., Ltd. (seibundo-shinkosha.net)