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Announcement for Intermedia Arts Festival, Nikkei Hall, Japan, January 18, 19, & 21, 1969
1969 · Letterpress and relief halftone
sheet: 30 3/4 × 17 9/16" (78.1 × 44.6 cm)
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Kōhei Sugiura (杉浦 康平)
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Recent Japanese Posters from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989–1990
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Kōhei Sugiura is a Japanese graphic designer and typographer whose practice, emerging in the postwar period, synthesizes traditional Japanese aesthetic principles with modernist compositional rigor. Working primarily in print design, he developed a distinctive approach to the spatial and semantic relationship between image and text, establishing typography as a structural rather than merely functional element within the visual field.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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