2024 DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion Research Grants for Academic Studies Relating to Graphic Design and Graphic Art: Selected Research Topics
Application Overview
Application Period: April 1 through June 14, 2024
Number of Applications
| Subtotal | Breakdown | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Domestic | Overseas | ||
| Category A | 43 | 38 | 5 |
| Category B | 18 | 17 | 1 |
| Total | 61 | 55 | 6 |
2024 Selected Research Topics
| Category | Research Topic | Applicant Affiliated Institution |
Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
A |
A Study on “Artists’ Books” Created by Conceptual Artists in the 1960s to 1970s |
NAGASHIMA Satoko Daegu University |
500,000JPY |
A |
The Red Bauhaus in Cold-War Italy. Hannes Meyer, Albe Steiner and Gabriele Mucchi: friendship and design exchange. |
BARBIERI Chiara ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (HES-SO) |
500,000JPY |
A |
Representations of Resilience in Elizabeth Tomalin: Her Interdisciplinary activities from Graphic Design to Art Therapy Practice |
SUGA Yasuko Tsuda University |
500,000JPY |
A |
Goethe's colour education with graphic teaching material: A replication study of Beytraege zur Optik (1791) |
YAMANE-SAIHOJI Chiaki Keio University Global Research Institut |
500,000JPY |
A |
Visual and Textual Analysis of the Photobooks of 矢頭 保 [YATO Tamotsu], 1966-1972 |
MUNOZ JILES Gaston Juan Aliwen Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies Waseda University |
200,000JPY |
A |
The war, trauma, and prayer in Taeko Tomiyama’s Harbin: Requiem for the 21th Century (1995) |
SHIMIZU Sae Independent Curator |
500,000JPY |
A |
Utilizing the Metaverse to Inheritance of Guqin Playing Method: Focusing on Urakami Gyokudo’s Jianzi Pu |
ISHIDA Yuri Okayama University |
500,000JPY |
A |
From Line Drawings to Color Field Composition: Ayao Yamana's Post-War Design Work, Focusing on the Pamphlets of Tomin-Gekijo |
NOZAWA Hiroki Gunma Museum of Art,Tatebayashi |
500,000JPY |
B |
Privacy in pictures: Seeing the unseen Indo-English lives during Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century colonial India |
YADAV Deepali DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FACULTY OF ARTS, BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY |
200,000JPY |
B |
Study of historical documents on tactile characters for the blind before the existence of Japanese Braille: exploring optimal methods for digitalization and database creation |
IIZUKA Kiyo Ochanomizu University Library |
500,000JPY |
2024 Continuation Grants (2023 Selected Research Topics)
| Category | Research Topic | Applicant Affiliated Institution |
Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
A |
The Visual Culture of ‘Fringe’ Science: Thoughtography as Global History |
HSIUNG Hansun Durham University |
500,000JPY |
A |
Symbology of Rroms (Gypsies) |
SUMI Yusuke Kobe City University of Foreign Studies |
500,000JPY |
A |
Contemporary Art Practice through Woodblock Prints: A Case Study in Indonesia and Malaysia |
HIROTA Midori Professional Institute of International Fashion |
500,000JPY |
A |
A Study on the Mutual Influence of Sheet Music Printing and Musical Culture in the Digital Age |
SEKI Shintaro Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
500,000JPY |
A |
Connecting People and Countries through Photography by Kazumasa: Anglo-Japanese Photographic Exchange in the Meiji Era |
SHIMIZU Yuki Tsuda University |
500,000JPY |
A |
Photographs of “Butsudori” in Modern Japan: Focusing on the 1920s to 1960s |
ASHITAKA Ikuko Shiga Museum of Art |
500,000JPY |
A |
Ramayana in South and Southeast Asian Graphic Culture |
RAO Anandi SOAS, University of London |
500,000JPY |
B |
Investigation of Chinese Islamic Pictures, Calligraphies, and Posters in China and Japan: Toward the Creation of a Catalog and Archive |
UNNO Noriko Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University |
500,000JPY |
B |
Building of Digital Archives of Taizanseitosho |
SAKAGUCH Eishin Independent researcher |
500,000JPY |
B |
Research of Genichiro Inokuma’s works of 1930-1940's magazine cover and Build out open database of the collection |
YOSHIZAWA Hiroyuki Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art |
500,000JPY |
B |
Trends from 2000 to the present―Through the International Typography Biennale Typojanchi― |
SEO Hye School of Human Cultures, Department of Living Design, The University of Shiga Prefecture |
400,000JPY |