outside front cover(right) & outside back cover
Ohia lehua (Hawaii Island, U.S.A.)
Continue reading Honeybees and the Labyrinths of Flowers.
" La nuit, ailleurs " = " The night, elsewhere " is my second title in the same series of "Papiers Coupés", fabricated at the laser-cut studio oft the publisher Grandir.
This is the another story in the full-moon night.
left: the book is covered with laser-cut ivory sheet and silver color sheet underneath.
right: an introductive phrase written (cut) on the back.
Removing the silver sheet, the hidden tint --- purple surface of the book --- appears.
The motif on the cover is a bud of "Queen of the night".
The accordion-folded structure seen from the front side. The Queen of the night bloomed, mother and child of Malayan tapir, a grape vine, a rabbit in the wood, a snow mountain ...... and those peeping from behind .
Continue reading La nuit, ailleurs --- another laser-cut picture book.
"Quand petit Tomo dort"= " While little Tomo sleeps"
Fabricated at the laser-cut studio "Papiers Coupés", one of the section of the publisher Grandir.
A story of the full-moon night, without words.
left: the book is covered with laser cut ivory sheet and bronze color sheet underneath.
right: turn over the front cover and there's a title pape also laser-cut.
The first scene and the following pages through the "window".
The sunlight casts the shadow on the floor. This effect was a part of my plan but ......
Continue reading Quand petit Tomo dort, a new picture book.
A little photo exhibition is held, from January 2017, at the salon of Libé, a French language school in Tokyo. These photos are taken during my visit to Paris.
The title would be translated ( though not literally ) " Paris, sweet solitude " .
Continue reading Photo exhibition " Paris, doux et seul ".
I'd like to propose these three design(sketches) for square silk scarf, adopting the concepts of my previous works on picture books. The theme is "Have Fun in the Square !"
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Composing little animals from " Here I am ! the A-mazing Little Creatures ".
The background might be the pattern of plants, or, the maze would be spread in full size.
②
Deforming and modifying the drawing from " Wind, Wave & Circle Dance / Un fils du vent, Une fille de l'onde/ Rondo-Mondo ", the line is circulating in this square space.
Continue reading Designs for Silk Scarf.
Two designs for the towel celebrating 50th anniversary of a certain golf practice range. Considering the towel material, the second design (bottom) was adopted as a giveaway novelty for the customers.
This is a prototype of the book (expecting some publisher !) I presented at the solo-exhibition in May, at Gallery EF Monthly Art Shop (Tokyo).
Two lines, orange and blue compose the scene on each spread and, as the lines continue on the front and back covers too, the story never ends making a loop forever.
Continue reading Book that Loops.
Now the World Cup in Brazil is in the midst of the heat !
And I remember the time when I begun to watch football games.
These are the T-shirt designs for the group-exhibition to cerebrate the World cup football 2002 ( in Korea & Japan).
These would be appropriate for the women's ;-) don't you think?
I put 2015 in the place of 2002 for the Women's World Cup 2015 !
Continue reading Miscellaneous Goods.
At this exhibition, pictures are formed by two lines, drawn without a single break.
The beginning and the end can be connected so as to make a loop.
With this design, I wrapped the cylinder-shaped container.
Continue reading Repeating Patterns.