Kyoto DDD Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Kyoto DDD Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Graphic West 7: Yellow Pages
The “Graphic West” exhibition series returns after a 4 year hiatus, presenting “Yellow Pages”, a series by graphic designers all across Asia which featured in “Idea” design magazine. Taking the stage are...More »
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Wim Crouwel “Fascinated by the Grid”
This exhibition is the first overview of the work of Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel in Japan. Crouwel (Born in 1928) began his career in 1952 as an exhibition designer but is most noted as the graphic...More »
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.Communication
A collaborative exhibition between Kyoto DDD Gallery and Seian University of Art and Design, with works by students, graduates, and faculty that address the idea of a gap in communication. [Related...More »
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Kouga Hirano and Shobunsha
For roughly three decades between 1964 and 1992, Kouga Hirano was in sole charge of the covers on books published by Shobunsha. Indeed, it is a rare feat a single designer to handle all a publisher’s output....More »
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Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition 2017
This exhibition showcases highly-regarded entries in the annual international competition, the Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2017, organized by the Tokyo Type Directors Club, and this year will feature more...More »
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Masayoshi Nakajo “In & Out (Imbibing and Vomiting)”
Titled”In & Out,” this exhibitionl features 22 new posters with the theme of “Mother & Others” in Swiss size, i.e. dimensions somewhat larger than usual.The peerless Nakajo, whose overwhelming...More »
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Graphics and Music
As humans, we typically seek to express our inner feelings or thoughts by a variety of methods. Artistic activities are one such way, with music and art being representative examples. Whereas music, through...More »
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Experimental Studies – Post Past
Previous exhibitions at the kyoto ddd gallery have presented the cutting edge of graphic design, focusing on world-renowned masters of the genre and up-and-coming artists. However, seizing upon the opportunity...More »
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How to Go, Where to Go – The Joy of Travel
A selection of posters looking at travel from a variety of perspectives: motion, place, joy, and sentimentality. More »
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Materiality-Immateriality Design & Innovation
In tribute to the 30th anniversary of the exhibition led by Jean-François Lyotard, “Les Immateriaux” (Centre Pompidou, 1985), this exhibition looks at the possibilities offered by the concept of materiality...More »
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Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition 2016
The Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition 2016 presents the results of the “Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2016”, an international design competition sponsored by the Tokyo Type Directors Club. This year’s competition...More »
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Rhizomatiks: The Blind Spot of Graphic Design
Since their beginnings, the Rhizomatiks have continuously pioneered a broad spectrum of creative genres always transcending existing frameworks, employing the latest digital technologies and media spanning...More »
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21st Century Rimpa Posters : Competitive Works by 10 Graphic Designers
This exhibition commissions and displays Rimpa-inspired posters by ten leading contemporary designers. [Related Event] Lecture 1 Speaker: Motoaki Kawano (Kyoto College Of Arts And Crafts President) Date:...More »
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Asaba’s Assimilation: Katsumi Asaba Exhibition
In 2016 kyoto ddd gallery kicks the new year off with “Asaba’s Assimilation,” a solo exhibition of works by Katsumi Asaba, an art director who today enjoys supreme renown and popularity both at home in...More »
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Nippon no Nippon: Helmut Schmid
The designer and typographer Helmut Schmid was born in Austria and studied under Emil Ruder in Basel, Switzerland. He is now based in Osaka. His works include logo designs for many popular brands, such...More »
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20th Century Rimpa: Ikko Tanaka
“There was Sotatsu Tawaraya in the seventeenth century, Korin Ogata in the eighteenth century, Hoitsu Sakai in the nineteenth century, and Ikko Tanaka in the twentieth century. Tanaka is not Rimpa-like....More »
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Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition 2015
The “Tokyo TDC Exhibition 2015” presents the results of the “Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2015,” the annual international design competition organized by the Tokyo Type Directors Club. A total of 3,004 entries...More »
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Lars Muller “Analog Reality”
An exhibition by Lars Muller Publishers, an internationally active publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland, featuring 100 volumes of carefully edited and designed publications on architecture, design,...More »
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Hiroaki Nagai “Graphic Jam Zuko in Kyoto”
Introducing the work of Hiroaki Nagai, including posters, newspaper and magazine ads, and book designs with a focus on the draughtsmanship that serves as the starting point of his creativity. [Related...More »
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The Nippon Posters
From the golden age of postwar graphic design through the current era of contemporary poster art, graphic designers have produced diverse works that carry on the special qualities of traditional Japanese...More »
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Osamu Fukushima and the Design of Tomorrow - Social Design & Poster
Upon discovering the term “Social Design” Osamu Fukushima determined that with a sense of gratitude he wanted to devote himself to investigating the possibilities of contributing to society through design....More »
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Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition 2014
The Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition 2014 presents the results of the “Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2014”, an international design competition sponsored by the Tokyo Type Directors Club. This year’s competition...More »
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Masahiko Sato + Tatsuya Saito “Placing the Finger”
Searching out a new form of relation between the finger(the body) and graphic design, Masahiko Sato and Tatsuya Saito allow visitors to place their fingers upon the new possibilities of graphic design. [Related...More »
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“The Passion and Calm of the Avant Garde”
Graphic design to “change the world”, graphic design to “create the world”. From the revolution bound Russian avant garde, to the pre-war achievements of the Bauhaus, to the post-war rise of Dutch and...More »
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Omiya Ellie “7 Years - From Office Lady to Now”
In recent exhibitions at Parco Museum which subtly touch the hearts of each individual viewer Omiya Ellie has explored means of communicating sensitivities of feeling and living, but in this exhibition...More »
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2013 Tokyo Art Directors Club Exhibition
Exhibition of winning and highly commended entries of the ADC Prize for design - from posters, newspaper and magazine ads; editorial, logo and package design; to TV commercials.More »
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Life: Kazumasa Nagai Poster Exhibition
Exhibition selection of posters and prints on the theme of “life” by the legendary graphic designer, Kazumasa Nagai, from the collection of the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion. In the latter half...More »
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Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition 2013
The Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition 2013 presents the results of the Tokyo TDC Annual awards 2013, bringing together typographic works from around the world, including the 10 award-winners, nominated...More »
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"08TDC" Exhibition
TDC is a summit gathering of the year's most cutting-edge typographic work, organized by the Tokyo Type Director's Club. This year, there were a total of 3140 entries, of which 2283 were from within Japan...More »
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Shinya Nakajima "CM"
Having brought numerous commercials to the world as a director of TV commercials, Shinya Nakajima has constantly commanded the focus of attention in the advertising industry. In 1987 he was among the first...More »
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Kenjiro Sano Exhibition
Brief expressions that capture the essentials are composed of appropriately extracted minimal elements. Numerous works of art direction offering glimpses of a humor that somehow relaxes people and puts...More »
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"Welcome to Magazine Pool" Exhibition
This exhibition is produced by top magazine designer Yasushi Fujimoto (TMDC president and CAP representative) and featuring ten creators’ initiatives in the cutting edge of the magazine design scene. Magazines...More »
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Katsu Kimura Exhibition
Katsu Kimura is a packaging design pioneer and a producer of bright and rhythmical designs. At the entrance, visitors are welcomed by a "Snoopy" (the Peanuts character) made of paper, and will encounter...More »
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"2007 ADC" Exhibition
The ADC Award winners have been selected through a rigorous judging process by the 84 members of the Tokyo Art Directors Club (ADC) from around 10,000 submissions in a diverse range of fields encompassing...More »
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Helmut Schmid "Design is Attitude"
As a student, Helmut Schmid received design education in Switzerland during the 1960s, which was also when the theory of typography was established. After his burgeoning career all over Europe, he currently...More »
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Tokyo Type Directors Club Exhibition 2007
The exhibition is a showcase of the recipients and nominees of the Tokyo TDC Award, which is annually hosted by the Tokyo Type Director's Club. Out of the 2668 entries from Japan and abroad (716 of which...More »
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"Graphic Messages from ggg & ddd 1986-2006" Exhibition
Dai Nippon Printing established the Ginza Graphic Gallery (ggg) in Tokyo in 1986, and the ddd Gallery in Osaka in 1991. Both galleries have held an enormous amount of exhibitions featuring the world's...More »