A Message from the Director

Jan. 21, 2019

World Book Design 2017-18

We have been holding a Book Design exhibition since December 2018. This is the perfect season to become more familiar with books, and we wish you all will experience a great feeling to enjoy opening beautiful book pages this year too.

For this exhibition, we have added the top entries of the past 10 competitions to the works from the "Best Book Design from all over the World 2018" competition. In addition, contest winning works from seven countries (Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, and China) will be included in the lineup, which brings the total number of exhibits to as many as 200.

We have been in pursuit of beautiful books over the past 11 years. We would be pleased if you could enjoy the current state of books as well as our past progress.

Koichi Kabayama

Director
Printing Museum, Tokyo

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.