2017 DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion Research Grants for Academic Studies Relating to Graphic Design and Graphic Art, Selected Research Topics
Application Overview
Application Period: May 1 through July 14, 2017
Number of Applications
| Subtotal | Breakdown | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Domestic | Overseas | ||
| Category A | 51 | 44 | 7 |
| Category B | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 52 | 45 | 7 |
2017 Selected Research Topics
| Category | Research Topic | Applicant Affiliated Institution |
Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
A |
Visual Representation of Colonial Modernity: Advertising and Graphic Design in Korea Under Japanese Rule (1910-1945) |
Yongkeun CHUN PhD candidate, Royal College of Art |
500,000 JPY |
A |
Legal Protection on Graphic Design: Focusing on Protection under Design Act |
Tatsuyuki SUEMUNE Doctoral Course, Graduate School of Law, Waseda University Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
500,000 JPY |
A |
Study on Images of "Technology" in Digital Textbooks for Elementary and Lower Secondary School Science |
Yoshiyuki GUNJI Associate Professor, Shizuoka University |
250,000 JPY |
A |
Graphic Culture in Yugoslavia: Partisan Printing Shop in World War II and the Representation of "Anti-Fascism" |
Kanako YAMASAKI Doctoral program, Study Field of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade |
300,000 JPY |
A |
Influence of the emblem books upon the Christian art in Central and South America |
Hiroaki ITO Professor, School of Letters, Senshu University |
500,000 JPY |
A |
The correlation between Caricature, Literary newspaper and Magazine in Estonia of before independence |
Akira ARIMOCHI Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts, Hiroshima City University |
300,000 JPY |
A |
The Protection of Graphical User Interfaces |
Etsuko YOSHIDAI Specially Appointed Fellow, Intellectual Property Center, Osaka University |
500,000 JPY |
A |
Hong Kong Design Story: Study on the Development of Typography |
Amic G. HO Assistant Professor, Open University of Hong Kong |
250,000 JPY |
A |
Graphic Medicine as Comparative Visual Media Studies Connecting between Information and Emotion |
Kotaro NAKAGAKI Professor, School of Letters, Senshu University |
300,000 JPY |
A |
The Development of British Avant-Garde Art and Printed Media in the early 20th Century —In Reference to Vorticist's Drawings |
Mariko KANAME Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Atomi University |
300,000 JPY |
A |
A study of Society for Textile Art of Marubeni Shoten |
Tatsuya OKA Assistant Professor, Kyoto Arts and Crafts University |
500,000 JPY |
A |
The Philosophy of Images by C.-F. Menestrier in 17th Century France: Searching for the Origins of Graphic Art |
Keiko KAWANO Postdoctral Fellowship for Research Abroad, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
300,000 JPY |
A |
Generation, Extinction and Revival of the Paper-cut Forms: Comparative Cultural Study between Japan and the World |
Tomoko NIWA Lecturer, Faculty of International Fashion, Professional Institute of International Fashion |
500,000 JPY |
A |
The Formation of Trademark Designs for Indian Market in Modern Japan |
Chie FUKUUCHI Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Social Research, Kwansei Gakuin University |
500,000 JPY |
A |
Serizawa Keisuke's Ehon Don Kihôte and the Mingei Movement |
Ana TRUJILLO DENNIS Lecturer, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid |
300,000 JPY |
A |
Words Form Language: On Eugen Gomringer, Typography and Concrete Poetry |
Simon MAGER Teaching and research assistant, ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne |
500,000 JPY |
B |
Formative Arts in Paper Cutout of Ikko Tanaka: Analyzed through the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion's "Ikko Tanaka Archives"（2） |
Satoshi FUKAYA Chief Curator, Nara Prefectural Museum of Art |
300,000 JPY |
2017 Continuation Grants (2016 Selected Research Topics)
| Category | Research Topic | Applicant Affiliated Institution |
Grant Amount 2016 Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
A |
A Study of Japanese Typefaces and a Typeface Customization System for Dyslexic Readers |
Xinru ZHU Graduate Student, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo |
500,000 JPY 500,000 JPY |
A |
The Representation of Architecture and Graphic Design: Through the Analysis of Architectural Exhibitions |
Kenjiro HOSAKA Curator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
450,000 JPY 500,000 JPY |
A |
Comparative Study of the Visual Culture between Korea and Japan through the visual image of Female Ghosts |
Mikyung BAK Part-time Lecturer, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University |
500,000 JPY 400,000 JPY |
A |
AWAZU Kiyoshi in the History of Graphic Design in Japan: Architecture, Movie and Photograph |
Ritsuko TAKAHASHI Curator, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa |
300,000 JPY 300,000 JPY |
A |
Telling the future of the endangered languages with visual images│Multilingual picture book design for folktales |
Fumi YAMAMOTO Designer, Illustrator, Part-time lecturer, Visual Design Department, Kyoto City University of Arts |
500,000 JPY 500,000 JPY |
A |
Elucidation of the expert craftsmanship from woodcuts |
Mariko ANDO Temporary Researcher, Research Center for Knowledge Science in Cultural Heritage, Doshisha University |
400,000 JPY 500,000 JPY |
A |
Japanese Graphic Design Collections at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Copper Union, Herb Lubalin Study Center |
Sakura NOMIYAMA Research Fellow, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Visiting Researcher, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
250,000 JPY 300,000 JPY |
A |
Greek Vases as a field of shaping public image |
Emiko TANAKA Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Niigata University |
500,000 JPY 250,000 JPY |