Kota Iguchi Motion Graphics Exhibition Opens in Ginza
Iguchi's exhibition formalizes a decade of cross-disciplinary motion design that moved from Olympic pictograms to Sphere and NIKE campaigns, now documented as a gallery practice.
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An exhibition tracing the work of video designer Kota Iguchi, creator of the Tokyo Olympics moving sports pictograms, will run from May 26 to July 4 at Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo. The show presents three new works and explores the progression from flat graphics to motion, with collaboration from designers Rei Ishii, Ryu Mieno, Taku Sasaki, and Aki Kanai.
Kota Iguchi, the video designer who made the Tokyo Olympics moving sports pictograms a global talking point, gets a solo exhibition at Ginza Graphic Gallery starting May 26. The show, titled "Kota Iguchi Motion Graphics," runs through July 4 and is free to enter. Iguchi is co-representative of the creative association CEKAI and has directed video for the Las Vegas Sphere and NIKE Air Max Day 2022. The exhibition presents three new works alongside representative pieces from CEKAI, with guest collaborators Rei Ishii, Ryu Mieno, Taku Sasaki, and Aki Kanai. The basement venue also displays earlier CEKAI projects, including work from the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony and children's program designs. Iguchi holds a visiting professorship at Kyoto University of the Arts and has won the Tokyo TDC Award, D&AD Yellow Pencil, and NY ADC Award.
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