A Message from the Director
Season of the "World Book Design Exhibition"
From December 5, 2015 to February 28, 2016, the Printing Museum, Tokyo is once again holding its annual World Book Design Exhibition. As we enter our 14th annual exhibition, we encourage our customers and others with an interest to send us their valuable opinions.
As in all years, the upcoming Book Design Exhibition will showcase contest-winning works from around the world together with winning works from a bookmaking contest held at home in Japan. Nearly 200 works will be shown. The winners were selected through careful examination and consideration of hundreds upon hundreds of superbly designed entries.
A highlight for the year will be innovative designs from a region we have not closely watched so far: Denmark, The Czech Republic, and other countries of Nordic and Eastern Europe. We invite you to the exhibition to see and interpret the unique book designs and thematic messages from these countries and from the rest of the world in great breadth and variety.
Please brave the winter weather and to come see us at the Printing Museum, Tokyo.
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.