The HIROSHIMA APPEALS poster for 2019

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On July 18, the HIROSHIMA APPEALS poster for 2019 was presentedto Mr. Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of Hiroshima City, at City Hall.

The HIROSHIMA APPEALS poster campaign aims to capture the spirit of Hiroshima through graphic design.

Hiroshima AppealsThe Hiroshima Appeals poster was started in 1983 as a project that transcends words to broadly raise awareness of “Hiroshima’s spirit” both inside and outside Japan. Currently, it is organizeed by the Japan Graphic Designers Association Inc. the Hiroshima International Cultural Foundation, and the Hiroshima Peace Creation Fund.The posters are created by JAGDA member designers as a pro bono work. Up until last year, 21 posters had been created, and in addition to being donated to Hiroshima City, they are also sold to the general public.

The creator of the year 2019 poster, Katsuhiko Shibuya, presented his design to Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of the City of Hiroshima. This was also ed the first time the new poster was disclosed publicly.

The circulation of Hiroshima Appeals 2019 is 2,000 copies.This 2019 edition is the 22nd poster in the series, and the 15th since the project resumed in 2005.

In a book about the immediate aftermath of the bombing of Hiro-shima, it was written that “swallows whose feathers were scorched and were unable to fly were walking along the ground by hopping about.” Naturally, there was no trace left of the birds that had been flying through the center of the explosion, but the very fact that swallows, the most agile of all birds, had their feathers scorched illustrates the instantaneous power of the atomic bomb like nothing else. Did chicks wait endlessly in their nests for their parents, which were no longer able to fly? A long time has passed since the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, and many of the city’s citizens are the children and grandchildren of the victims of the bombing. Nevertheless, the things that were destroyed at that time are carried within them and do not end. Therein lies the extraordinary nature of this atomic bomb, I feel.Children are the hope of the future. In order for the world that new generations live in to continue to be peaceful, I want as many people as possible to convey the story of Hiroshima to the adults of the world. It is this wish that I embodied in the poster.

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HIROSHIMA APPEALS poster for 2019

Katsuhiko Shibuya

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Graphic Designer

Born in Tokyo. Graduated from the Depart-ment of Design, Tokyo University of the Arts in 1981, joined the Advertising Department at Shiseido Company, Ltd. the same year, and worked in the fields of creative direction, art direction, CI and graphic design for a large number of advertisements and brands. Was appointed as head of the Advertising and Design Departments and Executive Creative Director at the company in 2012, and has been working in a freelance capacity since 2017.

Major projects:- Creative direction of global brands: Com-prehensive direction of the design of graph-ics, CI, and advertising/packaging/space for international brands such as Clé de Peau Beauté, Shiseido and Inoui ID.- Creative direction and artistic direction of domestic brands: Artistic direction and CI design for Ayura, Issey Miyake, Tsumori Chisato and others, beginning with cosmetics commercials for Perky Jean, Otoko no Gear, Reciente, Elixir, PN, Zen and other brands.- Art direction at “Hanatsubaki” magazine.

Creator of 2019 edition of the Hiroshima Appeals poster

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Katsuhiko ShibuyaMajor awards: Recipient of the 2012 Yusaku Kamekura Design Award, 2012 Tokyo ADC Member Award, 2005 and 2003 Tokyo ADC Awards, 2006, 2002 and 2001 New York ADC Special Awards, 2013, 2010 and 2008 JAGDA Awards, 1990 JAGDA New Designer Award, 1992 Tokyo TDC Gold Medal and other awards.

Activities in design organizations:JAGDA’s International Committee chair, TDC director, Tokyo ADC member, and AGI member

Education activities:Professor at Joshibi University of Art and Design (since 2017), Affiliate Professor at Kanazawa College of Art, and Affiliate Profes-sor at Osaka University of Arts Junior College

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1983–1989HIROSHIMA APPEALS

Designers1983 Yusaku Kamekura1984 Kiyoshi Awazu1985 Shigeo Fukuda1986 Yoshio Hayakawa1987 Kazumasa Nagai1988 Ikko Tanaka1989 Mitsuo Katsui

2011 Susumu EndoA Flash of Catastrophe

2012 Yukimasa Okumura Heiwa Ohashi

2013 Kaoru KasaiNatsu no Hi no Mabushisa (Glare of the Sun in Summer)

2014 Tsuguya InoueReminiscence

2015 Taku SatohThe Weight of Hiroshima

2016 Takahisa KamijyoLandscape of Prayer

2017 Kenya HaraHiroshima Appeals 2017Mushroom Illustration

HIROSHIMA APPEALS 2005–2018

2006 Koichi SatoGolden Butterfly

2007 Shin MatsunagaNo More Hiroshima!

2008 Masuteru AobaCitizen’s Peace Stamp Poster

2009 Katsumi AsabaA Time Never To Be Forgotten, 815

2010 Keisuke NagatomoMad Dog

2005 Masayoshi NakajoGive Peace A Chance

2018 Kazunari HattoriQuestion Mark, 2018

Hiroshima Appeals Posters Exhibition in Europe

Exhibits: Hiroshima Appeals posters from 1983–1989 and 2005–2019

Dates and Venues:21 November – 2 December, 2019 Art Academy of Latvia (Riga, Latvia)9 March – 17 March, 2020 Munich Creative Business Week (Munich, Germany)23 March – 5 May, 2020 Designforum (Vienna, Austria)(TBA: The exhibition will travel across Austria after May)

Hiroshima International Cultural FoundationHiroshima Peace Creation FundJapan Graphic Designers Association Inc. (JAGDA) Hiroshima Chapter

Organizers:

Japan Graphic Designers Association Inc.(JAGDA)Midtown Tower 5F, 9-7-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-6205, JapanTel +81-3-5770-7509　Fax +81-3-3479-7509E-mail: jagda@jagda.or.jp

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