Ma: The Realm of Mystery in Sugiura Kohei's 'Asian Grammar of Design'
Since returning from a teaching trip in West Germany in 1967, and from an exploration across the Southern part of Asia, designer Sugiura Kohei has advocated an ‘Asian grammar of design’ as a new model for his graphic design work. It is notable that Sugiura has widely employed ma, a Japanese concept...
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| author | Nguyen, Hung Ky |
| author2 | Toshiharu Taura |
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| description | Since returning from a teaching trip in West Germany in 1967, and from an exploration across the Southern part of Asia, designer Sugiura Kohei has advocated an ‘Asian grammar of design’ as a new model for his graphic design work. It is notable that Sugiura has widely employed ma, a Japanese concept of spiritual aesthetics, as the backbone of his Asian grammar of design. To find out more about his aesthetics, I conducted an interview with him in his Tokyo office on 22nd October 2008. This paper discusses how Sugiura perceives ma, and how it is applied to ‘Tradition et Nouvelles Techniques’ (1984), one of his remarkable poster designs. This paper sheds light on what Sugiura identified as the ‘Realm of mystery’ in his work, and how it informs his creativity. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-249792023-01-27T05:26:33Z Ma: The Realm of Mystery in Sugiura Kohei's 'Asian Grammar of Design' Nguyen, Hung Ky Toshiharu Taura Yukari Nagai Japanese Postmodern posters Sugiura Kohei ch'i Japanese aesthetics creativity analysis of design poster production Since returning from a teaching trip in West Germany in 1967, and from an exploration across the Southern part of Asia, designer Sugiura Kohei has advocated an ‘Asian grammar of design’ as a new model for his graphic design work. It is notable that Sugiura has widely employed ma, a Japanese concept of spiritual aesthetics, as the backbone of his Asian grammar of design. To find out more about his aesthetics, I conducted an interview with him in his Tokyo office on 22nd October 2008. This paper discusses how Sugiura perceives ma, and how it is applied to ‘Tradition et Nouvelles Techniques’ (1984), one of his remarkable poster designs. This paper sheds light on what Sugiura identified as the ‘Realm of mystery’ in his work, and how it informs his creativity. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24979 The Design Society restricted |
| spellingShingle | Japanese Postmodern posters Sugiura Kohei ch'i Japanese aesthetics creativity analysis of design poster production Nguyen, Hung Ky Ma: The Realm of Mystery in Sugiura Kohei's 'Asian Grammar of Design' |
| title | Ma: The Realm of Mystery in Sugiura Kohei's 'Asian Grammar of Design' |
| title_full | Ma: The Realm of Mystery in Sugiura Kohei's 'Asian Grammar of Design' |
| title_fullStr | Ma: The Realm of Mystery in Sugiura Kohei's 'Asian Grammar of Design' |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ma: The Realm of Mystery in Sugiura Kohei's 'Asian Grammar of Design' |
| title_short | Ma: The Realm of Mystery in Sugiura Kohei's 'Asian Grammar of Design' |
| title_sort | ma: the realm of mystery in sugiura kohei's 'asian grammar of design' |
| topic | Japanese Postmodern posters Sugiura Kohei ch'i Japanese aesthetics creativity analysis of design poster production |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24979 |