A Message from the Director
The theme is 'weave'!
Once again the time has come to enjoy the "Graphic Trial" held every summer. The 2015 trial will be the tenth held. We'll show you development.
Four two-member teams, each with a creator and printing director, will work with refined offset printing technologies on collaborative works. The teams will be assigned a unique challenge (trial) and asked to achieve it by exploiting the texture of paper in a dynamic design.
The artists have all been recruited, including Kazumasa Nagai, a leader in Japan's graphic design world. Their creations will expand into the idea and great skill as it weave thread to cloth. Please tell us your impressions once you see.
Koichi Kabayama
Director
Printing Museum, Tokyo
Director's Profile
Koichi Kabayama
Director
Printing Museum, Tokyo
Born in Tokyo in 1945. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo in 1965, and after completing the masters degree course at the university became a research assistant at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University in 1969. Became an assistant professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo in 1976, and later became a professor. Served as the Director-General of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo from 2001, becoming Director of the Printing Museum, Tokyo in 2005, a position he still holds. His fields of specialization are Western history and Western cultural history.