Ikko Tanaka Designs

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This article made me look:

http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/poster-picks-steven-heller-on-5-top-ikko-tanaka-designs/?mc_cid=85fab9883b&mc_eid=95f0d34766

Great timeless designs for sure…

MoMA visit

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Happy New Year 2013! It’s already going so fast, but let’s just do this! :)

We went to MoMA on the 2nd of January — the first museum visit in 2013. I renewed my membership, too, so you’ll see more posts from MoMA this year again.

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My husband, Randy wanted to see this exhibition for a while: Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets. And wow, it was a total trip to their world…

There is no photography allowed, but I had to take this wall photo. It was so great not to. Just loved the calligraphy on the wall plus the display and caught my eye so much.

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I loved the graphic design, drawings, and calligraphy part of the exhibition besides their films…

There are more in the theater area and that was awesome…

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We also saw the exhibition entitled Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde:

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Again, there is no photography allowed, but I loved this room with graphic design posters so I did a couple quick sneaky shots…

On the TV monitor, there was an animation by Tadanori Yokoo playing — I’ve never seen that before and I didn’t know he made such things back in 1970s and it was really great to watch.

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And Tokyo Olympic posters in 1964. So simple and great!!

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May your / our 2013 be filled with love and creativity!!

Now that our design blog has been fixed (and has a little bit of a facelift), I’d love to post more stuff regularly.

Souvenir Score Card

Fenway park

We went to a ballgame at the Fenway Park last night to celebrate Randy’s birthday a little early. I love this stadium, it’s the classic old one and the fact that was Mili’s first baseball game made it even more special!

I found this old Souvenir Score Card while walking around the stadium and I had to take a photo and share. How cool is this typography?! SO good! And it’s from 78 years ago. Such a timeless piece… Made me really happy!

And this made me really happy, too :)

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Impressive

I have a great news to share today — my work has been featured in this awesome book called “Impressive –Printmaking, Letterpress and Graphic Design” by Gestalten! I could not be more excited to be a part! The book should be out all over the world now — if you happen to see it at the book store, please take a look or grab it (you will not regret) — really great design book I’ve seen in a long time!

Here is my page! Page 96 to be exact. Next to Sesame Letterpress page, how exciting!

***and some sneak peeks of the book***

Yay for my friend, Tota Press:

Studio on Fire:

Fortress Letterpress + Design:

The Paper Nut:

LOVE their work — by The Caseroom Press:

Stéphane de Schrevel:

I have been her fan — Ophelia Chong:

Mike Burton & Cranky Pressman:

Mike Burton:

I wish I could share every page with you… 240 pages filled with printmaking, letterpress, graphic design goodness!

I am so inspired, thank you again so much, Gestalten editors!!