The DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion, a public interest incorporated foundation, will hold the "Japanese Art Direction Exhibition 2025" at the Ginza Graphic Gallery (ggg, Ginza, Tokyo) from Friday, October 31, 2025 to Saturday, November 29, 2025.
[About the "Japanese Art Direction Exhibition 2025"]
Founded in 1952, the Tokyo Art Directors Club (ADC) currently consists of 85 of Japan's leading art directors. The annual open exhibition, "Japan Art Direction Exhibition," is held with all members as judges. The "ADC Award," selected here, is an award that reflects the cutting edge of Japanese advertising and graphic design, and is attracting attention both from within Japan and overseas.
This year, ADC members conducted a rigorous screening process to select the winning works and works to be included in the yearbook from approximately 6,000 submitted works that were announced, used, or published between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025.
In advance of the April 2026 publication of "ART DIRECTION JAPAN / Japanese Art Direction" (formerly known as the "ADC Yearbook"), which will feature award-winning and outstanding works, ggg will now be showcasing these works.
Poster for "Japanese Art Direction Exhibition 2025"
[Outline of the "Japanese Art Direction Exhibition 2025"]
○Period: October 31, 2025 (Friday) to November 29, 2025 (Saturday) 11:00-19:00
Venue: Ginza Graphic Gallery (ggg) (DNP Ginza Building, 7-7-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)
○Closed: Sundays and public holidays ○Admission fee: Free
■Related events
Please check the ggg website for the latest information on opening parties, gallery talks, etc.
The URL is here → https://www.dnpfcp.jp/CGI/gallery/schedule/detail.cgi?l=1&t=1&seq=00000849
■Traveling exhibition
Komoro Kogen Municipal Museum of Art, Shiratori Eisekikan (Komoro City, Nagano Prefecture)
December 7, 2025 (Sunday) – January 25, 2026 (Sunday)
○Nonoichi Curry in the Forest of Learning (Nonoichi City, Ishikawa Prefecture)
Scheduled for April 2026
■Related book publication: "ART DIRECTION JAPAN / Japanese Art Direction" (formerly known as "ADC Yearbook")
Published by Bijutsu Shuppansha, April 2026
01: Art direction for "Takano Ryudai: Kasbaba – To Survive This Everyday Life" at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
02: Ginza Graphic Gallery "Kikuchi Atsuki: A Space with Graphic Design" Exhibition
03: Kanebo Cosmetics "I HOPE." commercial film
04: Tamiya "TAMIYA PLAMODEL FACTORY TOKYO" VI
05: Kao "Merit" poster and commercial film
06: Kamoi Kakoshi "Diagonal Cut Tape" products
07: Otsuka Pharmaceutical "Pocari Sweat" commercial film
08: Nagasaki Shimbun newspaper advertisement for "Timeline of the Nuclear Threat – From 3 Seconds to 79 Years"
09: Takeo "Things that were once trees" exhibition
10: VI for Japan Graphic Design Association's "JAGDA Design Conference Graphic Design Now"
11: Book design for Gunma Museum of Modern Art, Nichido Contemporary Art "Jose Davila: I prefer to look with my eyes closed."
12: Sakaue "Satoyama" package design and logotype
13: AR Live of Kenshi Yonezu's "LOST CORNER"
14: Bananafish, Nieves "here and there Vol.1-Vol.13.5" book design
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