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MIDPARK KOINOBORI COLLECTION

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JAGDA Guest Artists

Designers and artists who have won prominent art and design awards in Japan and abroad,
and are active at the forefront of their fields.

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Crocodile Man

Crocodile Man

Kubo's latest work was incorporated into the koinobori. The pop, fun, and cute world changes scene in the middle. 【Created in 2020】

Katsunori Aoki / Art director, Creative director
Seijiro Kubo / Character designer, Illustrator
About Katsunori Aoki:
Creative director for Yoshinoya, Feels, and other brands. He has also produced work for Copet, Kamirobo, NiJi-Zou, and others.

About Seijiro Kubo:
Seijiro has designed many characters, with Copet among them. His notable works include Coca-Cola's summer campaign.
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Green Leaf Koi

Green Leaf Koi

May in Japan is full of lush green. The green koinobori flutters like a leaf in the breeze in the blue sky. Families celebrate the growth of their children, and have fun together. 【Created in 2020】

Takashi Akiyama / Graphic designer
He is a professor at Tama Art University and Director of Takashi Akiyama Poster Museum Nagaoka.B.A.Tama Art　University, M.A.Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He was born in Nagaoka City in 1952. He was awarded the Gold Prize at the international Poster Biennial in Warsaw, the Altia Prize at international Biennial of Graphic Design Brno, Honorary Mention Awords at the international Poster Biennial in Mexico, UNDPI Awards at the NY Festivals, and 19 Gold Awards at the Graphis Poster Annuals.
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Red Koi 2020

Red Koi 2020

There is a saying that the natural world is the model for all things. The natural world's ability to design things—such as animals, plants, insects, and fish—is amazing. How far can humans rise to the challenge? 【Created in 2020】

Katsumi Asaba / Art director
Born in Yokohama in 1940, Katsumi founded Katsumi Asaba Design Studio in 1975, after working for Light Publicity. He has worked on a number of advertisements for brands like Suntory and Seibu Department Stores. Katsumi has won a large number of awards, including the Tokyo ADC Awards Grand Prix, the Medal with Purple Ribbon, and the Order of the Rising Sun. He is a director of JAGDA, chairperson of the Tokyo TDC, and the 10th president of Kuwasawa Design School.
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2020/2050

2020/2050

What will the world be like 30 years from now? There are many things that need to be done now for children to have a bright future. 【Created in 2020】

Yuko Araki / Graphic designer
A professor at the Department of Visual Design, Kobe Design University, she is also a director of Landsat Inc.
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The Difference between Swimming and Flying

The Difference between Swimming and Flying

Swimming is in the water. Flying is in the air, in other words, the sky. Koinobori fly in the sky, but definitely look like they are swimming. So I came up with a design that emphasizes that image of swimming. The design features a water-dot pattern. 【Created in 2020】

Takahisa Kamijyo / Art director
Born in Tokyo in 1940,
Takahisa graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.
He founded Kamijyo Studio in 1970, and has been its director to this day.
He is a member of ADC. He has also served in the past as deputy chair and director of JAGDA.
He is the author of Zero Point: Scenery at the Starting Point.
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Cosmic shell Shecco.

Cosmic shell Shecco.

I gave form to an image of a cosmic shell in space, as a message to the children of the future. Reinforced by sharp protuberances, the beautiful shape was formed by surviving a harsh environment. The shell's spiral structure is reminiscent of the Milky Way—the swirling origin of the universe. 【Created in 2020】

Yoichiro Kawaguchi / Professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, Artist
Born in Tanegashima, Yoichiro has been a professor at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo since 1998. He is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. Starting with "GROWTH Model," a self-organizing modeling algorithm he created in 1975, he has worked on the creation of 8K CG videos and strange, large monuments featuring species that evolved in the deep sea and outer space. He founded the Japan Media Arts Festival, and served as the first chairperson of its panel of judges. He was also the representative artist for the Japanese pavilion at the 1995 Venice Biennale. He has won numerous grand prix awards, including PARIGRAPH, Ars Electronica, and IMAGINA. He was the winner of the 2010 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award. He received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Art Encouragement Prize in 2013, and the Medal with Purple Ribbon Award in the same year. He was awarded a Prix D'Honneur, Europe's international honorary award, in 2018, and was inducted into the SIGGRAPH Academy Hall of Fame.
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KOGOI

KOGOI

I wish happiness be always with you.
I used the pictures I took of the world's longest nature aquarium in the Lisbon Oceanarium (40 m), which was created by Takashi Amano. (February 2020) 【Created in 2020】

Yuki Kikutake / Graphic designer
Yuki established Compasso Co., Ltd. after working at the Nippon Design Center. She is particularly active in the field of supergraphics involving architecture, space, and environment. She is a professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University.
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Electrifying Koi

Electrifying Koi

Koi swim in the water, but koinobori swim in the sky. If they were to swim through thunderclouds, they would probably become electrically charged. 【Created in 2020】

Atsuki Kikuchi / Art director
Born in Tokyo in 1974, Atsuki works in fields such as brand planning, sign planning, graphic design. In particular, much of his work involves fine art, architecture, crafts, and fashion.
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The Planet Wishes for Peace_02

The Planet Wishes for Peace_02

The koinobori carries a message urging people to face the issue of marine pollution, so that fish can swim in beautiful oceans free of radiation and plastic waste, like the beautiful sky koinobori swim in. 【Created in 2020】

Hitomi Sago / Graphic designer
After graduating from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Hitomi worked in the advertising creative department at Parco and Chameleon before establishing Hitomi Sago Design Office Ltd. Starting with graphic design, she is active in a wide range of fields, from spatial design to product design.
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Koinohoshi (Love Star)

Koinohoshi (Love Star)

The night moon is in love with the sun. The stars are the messengers of love, skipping over the night and flowing through the daytime sky to the sun. 【Created in 2020】

Katsuhiko Shibuya / Graphic designer
Born in Tokyo, Katsuhiko has provided total design direction as a creative director for global brands like Shiseido and Cle de Peau Beaute, and art direction for Hanatsubaki magazine.
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Ripple of the Sky

Ripple of the Sky

I think that koinobori leave beautiful ripples in the sky they swim in. 【Created in 2020】

Norito Shinmura / Graphic designer
Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1960, Norito mainly works for Shiseido, Muji, and other brands. He has won the JAGDA New Designer Award, New York ADC, Tokyo ADC, and others.
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Where the Koi Flowing through the Sky is Headed

Where the Koi Flowing through the Sky is Headed

Koi aren't lively unless there's wind. They look beautiful when they're cheerfully swimming with lots of energy from the May wind. So, I drew strong currents on its body. It doesn't care where its "koi" (love) is headed—the koi lives freely, be it in the air or in the water. 【Created in 2020】

Hiroki Taniguchi / Graphic designer, Illustrator, Painter
Born in 1957. Exercising a versatile command of design and painting, Japanese and Western elements, the concrete and the abstract, and analog and digital tools, Hiroki spends every day on creation inflexible.
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Safety First

Safety First

Parents wish more than anything else for their children to be safe every day. This koinobori encourages people to put children's safety first. 【Created in 2020】

Kazufumi Nagai / Art director
Kazufumi joined HAKUHODO after graduating from Tama Art University in 1985. He established HAKUHODO DESIGN in 2003. He continues to pursue design possibilities in the fields of branding, social media, and communication design. He has won a number of awards both in Japan and abroad, including the Mainichi Design Prize, Creator of the Year, and the ADC Awards Grand Prix.
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Straight Line

Straight Line

In creating this design, I imagined a simple koinobori that is white on top and ultramarine underneath, flying in the sky. I hoped that the large eyes would be an accent that would leave a lasting impression. 【Created in 2020】

Kazumasa Nagai / Graphic designer
Born in 1929, Kazumasa has won the ADC Grand Prix, and received the Medal with Purple Ribbon and Order of the Rising Sun. He has won a number of awards at poster exhibitions in Japan and abroad. His notable works in the field of logo design include the Sapporo Winter Olympics and Expo 75.
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ONE HEART IN BLUE

ONE HEART IN BLUE

I want to keep a spirit of looking at the world with a clear mind during uncertain times. 【Created in 2020】

Satoshi Nakagawa / Product designer/Design engineer
Satoshi is involved in developing principles and methods of universal design, which is all about bearing in mind a diverse range of users. He takes a scientific approach to design engineering that focuses on ease of use.
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Koi(love)nobori_Screw

Koi(love)nobori_Screw

There are many industrial products around us, such as buildings, trains, cars, home appliances, furniture, and cellphones. All of them use various kinds of screws. This koi(love) nobori was made in appreciation of the "screws" that support society. 【Created in 2020】

Kotaro Hirano / Design director
Born in Tokyo in 1959, Kotaro studied under renowned painter Genichiro Inokuma.
He founded Hirano Kotaro Design Laboratory in 1987.
In the spring of 2010, he moved his base of activities from Daikanyama in Tokyo to Yoshino in Nara.
He loves Japanese culture, and aims to raise the social value of design and create environmental beauty through his work.
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Braille

Braille

The white dots form a Braille message. 【Created in 2020】

Osamu Fukushima / Graphic designer
Osamu established Fukushima Design after working for Katsumi Asada Design Studio and ADK. He explores possibilities for social contribution in design, and puts them into practice. He is a professor at Tokyo Polytechnic University.
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From Venice to Space

From Venice to Space

The design is based on glasswork I created in Venice. The heated glass shines brilliantly, and the koinobori swims energetically from the skies over Tokyo and onward into space. 【Created in 2020】

Norio Fujishiro / Graphic designer
Norio has been a finalist and winner of the Golden Award at the Golden Award of Montreux, Switzerland's international advertising arts festival.
Some of his works are permanently held at the Louvre Palace Museum of Decorative Arts in France.
He has held a solo exhibition at the Danish Poster Museum in Aarhus, Denmark.
He has also held solo exhibitions at the Museum of the Orient in Lisbon, Portugal and the State Museum of Oriental Art in Russia, and has works permanently held in both.
He also held solo glass exhibitions at the Ginza Mitsukoshi in July 2017 and June 2018, and another solo glass exhibition at the Ginza Mitsukoshi has been confirmed for June 2020.
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I’m Loving Carp.

I’m Loving Carp.

I just arrived in Hiroshima. Carps are closely associated with Hiroshima. So, my design expresses a Blue Sky Carp swimming through a blue sky. 【Created in 2020】

Keizo Matsui / Graphic designer
Keizo is a director of KEIZOMATSUI, Ltd. He designed the government's public relations symbol logo. He also did design work for Princess Takamado's bird photo exhibition, including the poster. His other work includes constructing Apple's basic white box package design system. He is a professor at and dean of the Department of Design and Arts, Osaka University of Arts Junior College.
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Fisheye

Fisheye

The koinobori became so concerned about the world that it turned into an eyeball. It's a fisheye, so it can see the world clearly. 【Created in 2020】

Shin Matsunaga / Graphic designer
Born in Tokyo, Shin graduated from the Department of Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. He is active in the field of design, and has produced a wide range works, from the peace poster that won the Grand Prix at the Warsaw International Poster Biennale to package design of daily product, including Scottie tissues and Can Chu-Hi beverage. Many of his works are permanently held in 91 art museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has won numerous of awards. Shin has held many solo exhibitions both in Japan and abroad, including in Warsaw and New York. He held a large-scale solo exhibition in Essen, Germany in 2019.
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Flight to Space

Flight to Space

I had fun envisioning the dream of space travel in the form of colorful birds flying from earth to the edge of space. 【Created in 2020】

U.G.sato / Graphic designer, Illustrator
U.G. has received gold awards at poster biennales in places such as Brno (Czech Republic), Lahti (Finland), Gabrovo (Bulgaria), and Warsaw (Poland).
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Double Helix Koinobori

Double Helix Koinobori

DNA—the foundation of life—has a double helix structure. This tube-shaped koinobori, linked inside and outside, represents these two helices that twist around each other as they rise, but never intersect. I hope children will face the unknowns that the future holds, like the double helix that represents the complexity and mysteriousness of life. 【Created in 2020】
*The dotted lines are drawn for illustration purposes only, depicting the surface spiral patterns on the other side of the carp streamer.

Shuichiro Yoshida / Architect
CEO of shushi architects. The name "shushi" includes their desire to spread new seeds in society, taking into consideration the purpose behind the things around us. They won the Good Design Award 2009 and contractworld. award 2010 New Generation Prize
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Hormon Koi

Hormon Koi

A koinobori with an original, all-over hormon pattern. Its organically wavy form is "inase" (a kind of fish, but also means stylish), even though it is a koi. 【Created in 2020】

WABISABI / Design duo
Wabisabi is a design duo consisting of Ryohei "wabi" Kudo and Kazushi "sabi" Nakanishi. They engage in a diverse range of creative activities, from advertising to graphic design, objet d'arts, video, interior, and fashion.
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Koichimatsu

Koichimatsu

Koinobori (carp steamers) are said to date back to the mid-Edo period (1603~1868). A checkered pattern was popular then. Recently, it has become trendy through the anime character “Tanjiro” (from Kimetsu no Yaiba). The carp streamer is wrapped in a pink checkered pattern that stands out against the fresh green. 【Created in 2021】

Koji Iyama / Art director, graphic designer
Graduated from the Department of Graphic Design at Tama Art University. Developer of a wide range of designs focused on branding through total direction from product planning and development to communication plans. Winner of many prizes in Japan and overseas, such as D&AD black pencil and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (Gold Lion).
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Carp streamers with hair styles

Carp streamers with hair styles

Great individuals from history (Uesugi Yozan, Shotoku Taishi (Prince Shotoku), Ii Naosuke, Abe no Nakamaro, and Tanuma Okitsugu) watch over children’s healthy growth on carp streamers. Hair styles best express who they are. Looking forward to see what sort of hair styles will be adopted once the children become adults. 【Created in 2021】

Hisakazu Shimizu / Product designer
Established S&O Design Inc. in 2012. Attracted attention through his pursuit of various activities, such as design research termed “Lovable Bad Design,” practice/education of new 3D design method – “Continuous design,” and his participation in the Setouchi Triennale. Part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts and the Kuwasawa Design School.
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Humans and Nature

Humans and Nature

Myself work with people,animals and nature and am socially proven and try to the best of my ability to do something for a better world. 【Created in 2021】

Peder Stougaard / Visual artist and founder of the Danish Poster Museum
Born in 1946 and raised in an orphanage. Trained as a chef but then went on studying in Aarhus Art Academy. Became a Professional artist in 1969. Uses drawing, paint and poems.
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Koinobori (carp streamer) synchronized with the blue sky

Koinobori (carp streamer) synchronized with the blue sky

Koinobori swimming in perfect synchrony with the most beautiful and refreshing blue skies in May. This carp streamer makes one imagine an early summer just over the horizon, with a sense of expectation and hope. 【Created in 2021】

Hiroko Nemoto / Wedding dress designer for Organza
After graduating from an art university, immediately started working as a fashion designer. Since then, has been designing high-class, elegant and sophisticated yet classic dresses.
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Juan

Juan

Wishing for everyone’s good health – regardless of age. 【Created in 2021】

Kyoji Nakagawa / Calligrapher
Born in Niigata prefecture in 1945.
Studied under Teshima Yūkei.
Director of the Dokuritsu Shojindan Foundation
Honorary professor, Senshu University
Received the Mainichi Exhibition Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology Award
Received the Mainichi Art Award
Managing Director, All Japan Sho Federation
Managing Director, National Calligraphy and Art Promotion Association
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