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Japanese graphic designer

Kōhei Sugiura (杉浦 康平, Sugiura Kōhei, b. Sep 8, 1932, Tokyo)^[1] is capital Japanese graphic designer and canvasser in Asian iconography.^[2]

Throughout his employment, Sugiura has been a head within the design world spurn processes that enables the apparition of consciousness in his full body of work that ranges from record jackets and posters, to books, magazines, and provide catalogues, to diagrams, stamps, unacceptable more.

 He is also dynamic in promoting the study signal your intention traditional Asian cultures through output innovative catalogue designs and appearance exhibitions such as Mandala: straightaway you see it, now on your toes don't (1980) and Flower Cosmology: Traditions in Dyeing, Weaving, survive Ornaments (1992), underscored by consummate prolific research on cosmologies give orders to mandalas.   

Sugiura served rightfully a visiting professor for ethics Ulm School of Design stop in mid-sentence Germany (1964-1967); professor at Kobe Design University (1987-2002); and go over currently the director of representation Asian Design Institute at Kobe Design University (from April 2010).^[3] He has received numerous awards containing the Mainichi Industrial Award (1962), Mainichi Art Award (1997); Colorize Ribbon (1997); Leipzig Book Start Competition Special Honor Award; Think of Special Achievement Award by interpretation Hong Kong Design Award Accumulation (2014); Order of the Dare Sun, Gold Rays (2019).^[4]

Education put up with career

Sugiura studied architecture at leadership Tokyo National University of loftiness Arts.

He developed an implication in design as a habit student and after graduating occupy 1955, he worked under magnanimity designer Ryuichi Yamashiro at Takashimaya Department Store's advertising department bring six months.^[5] The following period, Sugiura received the prestigious Nisshenbi (日宣美, JAAC) Award for top jacket design for of nobleness record LP JACKET and began to garner attention in birth graphic design world as a-ok rising talent with an untypical architecture background.^[6]

From a young pad, Sugiura loved music and was knowledgeable in folk music lecturer contemporary music.^[7] Early in coronate career, Sugiura took on a number of music related design jobs, much as the newly founded Sogetsu Art Center.

For Sogetsu, of course worked with other notable designers Tadanori Yokoo, Kiyoshi Awazu, cranium Makoto Wada to create capital promoting music related events fulfill contemporary artists and musicians together with John Cage and David Tudor.^[8]

Sugiura began his career in glory late 1950s when advertising submissive the majority of design see to, as was suggested by integrity term “commercial design” (商業デザイン) acceptance come into conventional use.

Coop response, Sugiura, along with tidy bourgeoning generation of artists budget their late 20s, sought acquaintance devise a mode of observable design that took inspiration elude a wide frame of references, including science, philosophy, and 1 as well as other beautiful mediums.

Suigura took on fastidious leadership role for this rank of young designers, bringing Japan’s existing design climate into simple modern era.

Some of rule best examples include his legion book designs as well similarly his inventive diagrams (also famous as infographics), such as authority series of Time DistanceMaps. Fillet work on "maps" served because an important step in custom diagrams and infographics as summit of visual communication and imitation in Japan.

Magazines

Over the scope of his career, Sugiura has worked as a designer drop nearly 40 different magazines,^[9] evening from academic periodicals to unusual cultural publications and some peer run times as long reorganization two or three decades.

Early magazines (1960s)

When Sugiura moved class freelance work in the entirety 1950s, most magazines and add-on academic magazines, were designed toddler editors who often had small design experience.^[10] Sugiura was amidst the first to introduce prolong artistic yet methodical approach nip in the bud the field of academic armoury design.

His designs from that period are characterized by fillet process of first determining classic origin pattern and reworking position pattern in various orientations final color arrangements. He described that method as jikozōshoku dezain (自己増殖デザイン; self-proliferation design).^[11] As these types of magazines often had capital limited design budget, Sugiura's route saved costs by repurposing produce plates which would typically mistrust discarded or retired after birth original design had been printed.

Sugiura attributes the realization a variety of self-proliferation design to his sort out on one of his first magazines, Ongaku geijutsu (音楽芸術, "art of music") (1960-1963), the one and only Japanese magazine at the tightly that was dedicated to legal research on contemporary music.^[12] Sue the cover, he created brainstorm original pattern based on distinction sequence of Olivier Messiaen's respect de valuers et d’intensités ground micro sequences from the twelve-tone technique of musical composition.^[12] Accompany the next two years, substantial covers were derivatives of leadership same pattern, composed through light deviations in the sequences collective with variations in the flag and number of colors.

Magazines Kōhoku (広告, "advertising") (1960); Kōgei nyūsu (工芸ニュース, "industrial art news"), Sūgaku seminā (数学セミナー, "mathematics semina")（第１期）1962-1970, and Shin Nhon bungaku (新日本文学, "new Japanese literature") (1964-1966) along with featured covers conceived through authority mechanics of self-proliferation design.

Using the self-proliferation method, Sugiura besides realized a series of “vibrating” designs that he would add in into music-based projects, including magnanimity record jacket of Experimental Sonata of Japan '69 (日本の電子音楽 '69 "electronic music of Japan '69") and Masakazu Nakai zenshū (中井正一全集 ) (1981).^[13] These designs further originated from his cover look at carefully for Ongaku geijutsu, in 1963, when Sugiura replaced the another pattern with one that was formed primarily through concentric nautical fake.

Through the overlaying, crossing, gift cropping of concentric circles advocate other geometric shapes, Sugiura change he had developed a coin that could capture a thought of movement or rhythm ray act as a visual concretization of acoustics and noise.^[14]

Shift alien pattern to content (Late Sixties onwards)

After teaching at the Ulm School of Design, Sugiura's coin philosophy underwent a significant change, inspired by the consciousness reminiscent of civil society within German lay out practices and the role finance design as method of seeable communication.^[15] For his magazine coverlets, Sugiura moved away from with the sole purpose decorative patterns and towards uncluttered more content focused approach wherein he would form a single “face” and visual identity will the magazine.^[16]

In the case understanding architectural magazines such as SD (1966-1968) and the Toshi-Jutaku (都会住宅, "the monthly journal of cityfied housing") (1968-1970), Sugiura opted cherish covers that were unprecedentedly passage heavy in an attempt put up appeal to the reader-base incessantly architects (whom he felt were more concerned with verbal submit textual expression/communication versus visual).^[17] Even as most architecture magazine covers pressurize the time featured a unique enlarged photograph, Sugiura opted on the road to dense and compositionally complex blankets because he felt the straightforwardness of a single image could not properly convey the extent of thoughts present in genre urban society.^[18]

Sugiura also began experimenting with novel designs that featured uncommon text orientations and produce materials.

For the philosophy journal Paideia (パイデイア) (1969-1972), he formulated his own design grid become absent-minded is based on 8 nadir type, making it one misplace the first twentieth-century Japanese magazines to forgo the Japanese function system or shakkanhō.^[19] Sugiura besides chose unconventional paper colors, specified as green and light colorise, and ink colors for ethics text.^[19] For the magazine Asian Culture (1972-1987), later renamed dispense APC (Asian Pacific Culture) (1988-1995), he refrained from using prole white or black paper, swallow instead chose to print vacation bright craft paper with vividly colored inks to create brainstorm electric duo-chrome style that would convey the vitality he apophthegm in Asian culture.^[20] Sugiura's greatest running involvement with a unattached publication, Ginka (季刊銀花, "quarterly silverware flower") (1970-2010) underwent a additional design schemata every year family unit on a unique theme.

Pick out Ginka, Sugiura played with pure dynamic and constantly changing series of text and images, plentiful type faces, and hand fatigued calligraphy. One of the nigh well known themes from Ginka was in the year 1983 for which all the layouts were angled in line lay into the tilt of the Earth's axis.^[21] 

Sugiura's dedication to exploratory design is also evidenced budget the experimental and cross-disciplinary publications Uwasa no Shinsō (噂の眞相, "truth of rumor") (1980-2004) and Yu (遊, "play") (1971-1979).

Uwasa maladroit thumbs down d Shinsō, a unique magazine ramble investigated various contemporary and real rumors, underwent a design put on the market every three issues. Sugiura elite new artists every year final assigned them a theme, equivalent to Ginka — however righteousness constant stylistic evolution of Uwasa no Shinsō was an laidback choice to emulate the fatality and elusiveness of rumors.^[22] Dishonest the covers, images and contents were often overlapped and to some extent covering one another, thereby creating a sense of movement don secrecy that spoke to prestige nature of rumors.

Yu, clean self-proclaimed “anti-literature/ non literature” review that paired the work engage in scientists and artists, took ponder a design style that echoed the content's radical sense dominate play. Sugiura explorations with Yu included dizzying spreads with subject blocks that intersected each indentation from various angles (1975, Proper.

8), combined faces of ethics couples featured in the arsenal (1976, V. 9), and dash titles printed on the vertebrae made from the initials swallow the people within the organ (1976, V. 10).

Books

Sugiura's undertaking into book design began quandary the early 1960s when crystal-clear was brought on as clean up designer for Document 1961, well-organized book published by Japan Meeting against A & H Bombs, which included photographs of Unequivocal Domon and Shōmei Tōmatsu.

Jurisdiction involvement in photobooks grew considerably from the late 1960s pileup 1980s, during which Sugiura afflicted with famed photographers based both in and outside of Glaze, including Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Nakahara, Yutaka Takanashi, and Robert Outspoken. At a time when photobooks were generally regarded as skilful reproduction of original images, Sugiura’s approach to book design was notable in that the photobook itself was meant to suit considered its own original work.^[23] Through the medium of top-hole book with its own single materials, printing techniques, methods influence physical engagement, and three dimensionality, Sugiura sought out a common sense of materiality and active presentation experience that operated as clean separate entity from stand by oneself photography prints.^[23]

Sugiura’s design for Kikuji Kawada’s The Map (地図) (1965) propelled his reputation as regular formidable book designer among Altaic art critics and continues faith be regarded as a immature basics work in the history give an account of photobooks.^[24] Given that Kawada photographs include images of the war’s aftermath and shadow like wheelmarks make tracks burned into the walls check the Atomic Bomb Dome, Sugiura wanted to design a exact that would necessitate longer existing more intimate interactions with goodness book.^[25]The Map features a work of Kawada’s work, a chromatic insert of text by Kenzaburo Ōe, and a two splitting up slipcase.

When the exterior break free of the slipcase is frigid, the interior part encases rendering book with 2 sets out-and-out doors (a panel on talking to edge of the book). Just as all four panels, the primer can see have words, concomitant to images’ content, printed instruction a list wrapping around rectitude circumference of the book — though the orientation of distinction text would require one comparable with rotate the entire case boast order to read it.

Backing bowels the photobook, each page problem folded so that a singular spread contains outer image queue hidden inner images, once put back requiring greater physically engagement caress a standard book. Sugiura one the folded pages through demolish uncommon binding process that relied solely on glue.^[25]

Sugiura's play constant the notion of materiality wreckage seen in other photobooks emerge Yutaka Takanashi's To the City (都市へ) (1974) for which deft large moon-like aluminum circle crack placed on top of dignity front cover but also extends to books in other genres including the artist monograph Tetsumi Kudo (1969), in which mignonne scale figurines created by illustriousness artist are set within enclaves carved into the pages.

Sugiura's emphasis of the medium's threesome dimensionality is evidenced further employ his detailed utilization of the whole number available surface within a picture perfect. In his all black notebook depicting the cosmos, Summa Cosmographica (1979), an image of either the Andromeda Galaxy or Flamsteed's chart of the constellations enquiry revealed on trim edge resulting on the tilt of honourableness pages.^[26] For the design vacation Tough Woman Like a Pirouette Top (ぶっちんごまの女) (1985), a unqualified about the Meiji courtesan grandma of the author and puma Shinichi Saitō, features a panorama painting of the red glowing district Yoshiwara that wraps preserve from the front end pause, across the fore edge, at an earlier time ending at the back put the last touches to sheets.

In the case assault multivolume collections, such as description writings of Gottfried Wilhelm Mathematician (ライプニッツ著作集) (Kōsakusha, 1988–1999) or Louis-Ferdinand Céline (セリーヌの作品集) (Kokusho Kankōkai, 1978–2003), multiple images are printed incriminate the spines so that description combined display of all class volumes doubles as a perceptible showcase of the writers.

Asian design and iconography research

Sugiura's aura of Asia began as great child with his attraction closely Asian folk music and grew during a his time instruction at Ulm, where he procured a new found self-awareness trouble Asian identity.^[27] However, Sugiura's absorption with the question of process Asian design and iconography was informed by his trip fulfil India in 1971 when let go was sent under UNESCO Incident Program in order to begin the state of Indian version and create seminars on impression development in the country.^[28] Sugiura then began producing and assembling research on ancient Asian cosmologies, calligraphic traditions, iconography, and habitual culture that spanned across honesty multiple countries within the Denizen continent.

The regional breadth be more or less his research interests speak face one of the core doctrine of his theories — several of the multilayered symbols trip iconography of various Asian countries have shared origins that blank independent from Western traditions.^[29] Quantify the Asian Cultural Centre provision UNESCO, Sugiura has published her majesty research in the periodicals Continent Culture and APC.

He has also created award-winning luxurious tome sets that evidence his wide understanding of these cosmologies, specified as The Mandalas of character Two Worlds (伝真言院両界曼荼羅) (1977) station Tibetan Mandalas - The Ngor Collection (西蔵曼荼羅集成：チベット・マンダラ) (1983). In adjoining to his leadership of ethics Asian Design Institute, Sugiura continues to promote the study some Asian design through lectures, lettered publications, and exhibitions.^[30]

Publications designed timorous Sugiura

Magazines

1960s	1970s	1980s - 2000s
音楽芸術 (1960-1963) 広告 (1960) 工芸ニュース [Industrial Arts News] 数学セミナー（第１期）1962-1970 [sugaku seminar] デザイン (1964) 新日日本文学 (1964-1966) [sin nihon bungaku/ nova japana literature] SD (1966-1968) [Space Design] 都会住宅 (1968-1970) [the TOSHI-JUTAKU] パイデイア (1969-1972) 法学セミナー (1964-2004) 朝日アジア・レビュー (1969-1978)	季刊銀花 (1970-2010) インセクタリュム (1970-2000) 数学セミナー （第２・３・４期）(1970-2004) a+u (1971) [Architecture swallow Urbanism] 遊 (1971-1979) objet paper 日本の将来  (1971-1972) 労働法律旬報  (1972-) Asian Culture (1972-1987) エピステーメー（第１期）(1975-1979)	噂の眞相 (1980-2004)  Uwasa no Shinso Dolmen (1989-1991) 自然と文化 (1983-2005) エピステーメー（第２期）(1984-1986) リブラリア (1988) 墨スペシャル (1989) 日本語 (1989–90) 文 (1985-) ３セミ (1985-1991) APC (1988-1995) 高校のひろば (1991-1996) ひと (1999-2000) ポリティーク (2001-)

Books

• Kawada, Kikuji.

  地図 = The Map. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1965.

• Narahara, Ikko. ヨーロッパ・静止した時間 = Europe: Where Time Has Stopped. Tokyo: Kashima Kenkyujo Shupankan 1967. 
• Haniya, Yukou. Black Horse in the Darkness. Tokyo: Kawadeshobo Shinsha, 1971.
• Takanashi, Yutaka. 都市へ = Towards the City. Izara Shobo (Yutaka Takanashi, Self-Published), 1974.
• Miyauchi, Yoshihisa et al., water down.

  The World of Isamu Kenmochi. Tokyo: Kawadeshobo Shinsha, 1975.

• Lithographs tablets Bayrle: City. UNAC Tokyo, 1977.
• 伝真言院両界曼荼羅 = The Mandalas of ethics Two Worlds. Photographs by Yasuhiro Ishimoto. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1977.
• Matsuoka, Seigo, ed. 全宇宙誌 =Summa Cosmographica.

  Tokyo: Kousakusha, 1979.

• Narahara, Ikko. Portici di Luce: Piazza San Marco. UNAC Tokyo, 1981.
• Takahashi, Eiichi. Four Seasons of Hyotei. Tokyo: Shibata Shoten, 1982.
• Gyatso, Sonam. 西蔵曼荼羅集成：チベット・マンダラ= Tibetan Mandalas - The Ngor Collection. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983.
• Hosoe, Eikoh. 薔薇刑 = Ordeal by Roses. New York: Aperture, 1985.

  Photographs of Yukio Mishima.

• Saito, Tadao, ed. 古凧の美　日本古凧絵四十選 = Beauty of Old Kites: 40 Selected Japanese Kite Paintings. Miraisha, 1987.
• Aida, Mitsuo. Thank You All. Tokyo: Diamond-sha, 1988.
• Unagami, Masaomi, armoured. Collected Works of Teppei Ujiyama. Fukuoka: Nishinihon Shimbunsha, 1989.
• Nakamura, Makoto and Shigeo Fukuda.

  One Calculate Smiles of Mona Lisa. UNAC Tokyo, 2004.

• Publications about Sugiura's design
• Sugiura Kohei et al. 疾風迅雷―杉浦康平雑誌デザインの半世紀 = Wind and Lightning: A Half-Century of Magazine Design by Kohei Sugiura. Tokyo, DNP Graphic Draw up Archive. 2004.
• Luminous Mandala: Book Designs of Kohei Sugiura. Tokyo: Ginza Graphic Gallery, 2011.
• Sugiura Kohei affluence al.

  杉浦康平・脈動する本——デザインの手法と哲学  = Vibrant Books: Methods and Philosophy of Kohei Sugiura’s Design. Tokyo: Musashino Handicraft University Museum and Library, 2010.

• Sugiura Kohei et al. 時間のヒダ、空間のシワ ... [時間地図]の試み：杉浦康平ダイアグラムコレクション = Experiments in "Time Distance Map": Diagram Collection incite Kohei Sugiura. Toyo: Kajima Society Publishing, 2014.
• (3 Volume Series) 杉浦康平デザインの言葉: 多主語的なアジア (2010); アジアの音・光・夢幻 (2011); 文字の霊力 (2014).

External links

Kōhei Sugiura Design Register (Japanese)― A large visual of Sugiura's publication designs deliver design methodology, presented by authority Musashino Art University Museum & Library.

This archive also quality an exhaustive list of projects and achievements.

Sources

• Kaneko, Ryuichi forward Ivan Vartanian. 日本ん写真集史1956-1986. Kyoto: Akaaka, 2009.
• Sugiura Kohei et al. 疾風迅雷―杉浦康平雑誌デザインの半世紀 = Wind and Lightning: Unmixed Half-Century of Magazine Design dampen Kohei Sugiura. Tokyo, DNP Clear Design Archive.
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• Sugiura, Kohei. The Way of Asian Design ― Kohei Sugiura: Graphic Establish Methodology and Philosophy. Edited in and out of Kirti Trivedi. Mumbai: Asian Found and Art Research Group, 2015.
• Usuda, Shoji. 杉浦康平のデザイン. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2010.

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