The photographs and other documents that toured five art museums across Japan will be exhibited from September 5, 2025 to January 10, 2026.
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) will host "Eiko Ishioka I Design GINZA" from Friday, September 5, 2025 to Saturday, January 10, 2026 at Maison des Musées du Monde (MMM), an art facility operated by DNP in Ginza, Tokyo.
Design: Hiroaki Nagai (NGinc.)
[About "Eiko Ishioka I Design GINZA"]
The "Eiko Ishioka I Design" exhibition, which began at the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art in September 2023, traveled to five museums: the Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane, and Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art, before concluding in June 2025.
The exhibitions "Eiko Ishioka: Can Graphic Design Survive?" at the Ginza Graphic Gallery (ggg) and "SURVIVE – Can Design Survive?" at Kyoto ddd Gallery, held in 2020-21, along with the Eiko Ishioka exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, were highly acclaimed and attracted large numbers of visitors. Eiko Ishioka (1938-2012) is widely known as an art director and designer who worked on a global stage. Along with her work, her words as an artist are also deeply inspiring. Many visitors, regardless of age or occupation, were touched by her passion, which she poured her whole heart and soul into expressing throughout her life.
Therefore, the traveling exhibition "Eiko Ishioka I Design" displays representative works from her graphic designs from the 1960s to 1980s, ranging from advertising campaigns to more personal exhibition plans, book designs, and artwork, along with words left by Ishioka. It could be said that the works that fascinate us across the ages could only have been created in that era, and the "red tent" has been incorporated as a key element to give a sense of the atmosphere of that era.
This time, MMM will be showcasing a small-scale reproduction of some of the exhibits, as well as documenting the traveling exhibition through photographs, conveying the essence of his passion and creativity, which remains undiminished no matter the circumstances.
■ Overview of "Eiko Ishioka I Design GINZA"
- Date: Friday, September 5, 2025 – Saturday, January 10, 2026, 11:00-19:00
- Venue: Maison des Musées du Monde (MMM), 3rd floor art space (DNP Ginza Annex, 7-7-4 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)
- Closed: Sundays and public holidays *The library on the basement floor is closed on Mondays
- Admission fee: Free
■About Maison des Musées du Monde (MMM)
Opened in 2003 as part of DNP's cultural activities, MMM provides information on museums around the world and exhibits and sells official merchandise from each museum under the theme of "Art in Life." Located adjacent to ggg, which showcases graphic design from around the world in special exhibitions, MMM also provides information on cutting-edge graphic designers from around the world and introduces and sells related merchandise in conjunction with the museum's activities. The DNP Group will continue to use MMM as a base to expand the connection between art and design around the world and everyday life.
- MMM website URL → https://www.mmm-ginza.org/top.html
- MMM Address: DNP Ginza Annex, 7-7-4 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
*The information provided is current as of the date of publication. Please note that it may be subject to change without notice.
[Dai Nippon Printing (DNP)] Press Release
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