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The Bulletin of Graphic Culture Research Grants Vol.1

The DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion has provided grants for research related to graphic design and graphic arts from diverse disciplines with the goal to promote the development of and academic research in graphic design and graphic art culture.
This is a compilation of results of the selected research conducted through March 2018.

Abstracts

Note: The author's affiliation and position are as of publication of the bulletin.

  • War and Pornography in Japan

    Gen ADACHILecturer, Nishogakusha University

  • A Semiotic Reconstruction
    —The Visual Identity of Postwar Tokyo as Seen in Ephemera

    Kei OSAWAProject Researcher, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo

  • A study of Resilience Design in the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake

    Yoshito OGATAAssociate Professor, Kyushu University

  • Study of Vernacular Belief Practice with the Visualization of the Dead

    Takemi ODAJIMACity history editor, Iwanuma-city Board of Education

  • The Intersection of International Modernism and Tradition in the Formative Theory and Artworks of the “Viennese Kineticism”:
    Focusing on Graphic Works Incorporating Letters

    Tomoko KAKUYAMALecturer, Nanzan University

  • Eiko Ishioka: Legend of Timeless Design

    Koichi KAWAJIRIEditor, Visiting Professor, Tōhoku University of Art & Design

  • Developing an Environment to Realize the Creation and Proliferation of Diversified Graphic Design:
    A Social Science Perspective

    Ryu KOJIMAAssociate Professor, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University

  • “Unity vereinigen” and “Standard normen” in Modern Design
    —From Typography to Architecture and onto Gardens—

    Fumiko GOTOAssociate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Keio University

  • Helene Schjerfbeck and photography: paintings and reproductions around 1900 in Europe

    Naoki SATOAssociate Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts

  • “Illegibility” contributes to function of bird-worm seal script:
    Expression of Religious motifs and relationship in distortion of letters

    Hikari TAKASHIROResearch Associate, Tokyo Polytechnic University

  • The drawing textbooks made of woodcut as media in the Meiji era:
    A study on arts dissemination of Kyoto painting circles through school education

    Shimpei TAKEUCHIAssociate Professor, Nara University of Education

  • Color Barrier Free Displays in Disaster Situations

    Kensei TSUCHIDAProfessor, Toyo University

  • Author’s Right Belonging to French Graphic Designers

    Makoto NAGATSUKAProfessor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University,

  • Mino Jinbutsuko Wagohen:
    The Mystery of the Social Register without Order

    Niels VAN STEENPAALAssociate Professor, Kyoto University

  • Representation of girls and its consumption in advertisements of modern Japan

    Shiori MAEKAWAAssociate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

  • Language × Design × Community:
    Role of Design in Endangered Language Revitalization Study

    Masahiro YAMADANational Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

  • The role of Rangi tea labels in promotion of “Japan Tea” brand overseas.

    Ako YOSHINOPart-time Lecturer, Shizuoka Sangyo University

  • Dr. Frantz Stoedtner’s Glass Slide as the Teaching Materials
    —A Way of New Knowledge Acquisition during the Meiji and the Taisho Era

    Tsumiki WADAFellow, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Museum and Archives

  • Beyond Representation:
    Images of Women in Japanese Modern Commercial Poster

    Ewa MACHOTKAAssociate Professor, Stockholm University

  • The Garakuta Circle: Re-thinking Transnational Theosophical Networks in Interwar Japan

    Helena ČAPKOVÁLecturer in Modern Architecture History, Architectural Institute in Prague (ARCHIP)

  • Metabolism in Visual Culture: The Collective of Kiyonori Kikutake and Ikko Tanaka in the 1960s

    Yasutaka TSUJIProject Assistant Professor, Keio University

  • Expression in Paper Cutout of Ikko Tanaka Analyzed through the Ikko Tanaka Archives

    Satoshi FUKAYACurator, Nara Prefectural Museum of Art

  • Ikko Tanaka’s Design Activities in the 1950s:
    An Analysis of a Turning Point in Japanese Postwar Graphic Design

    Sae YAMAMOTOPart-time Lecturer, Nihon University

  • Application of a Cavalier Perspective and Multi-focus
    —The Design Language of Ikko Tanaka

    Lang XIAODoctor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Tanaka Ikko—Refining Modern Graphic Design

    Mariko TAKAGIAssistant Professor, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts

  • Ikko Tanaka’s Graphic Design as an Inheritor of Japanese Art Traditions

    Rossella MENEGAZZOAssociate Professor, University of Milan

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