10th Anniversary：2010年12月28日
X4: Creative Base
ICC's Visual Design Story 4
“It’s Kubo. Happy New Year! This year’s keyword is going to be “release!”
It always begins by playing verbal catch with Kubo-san. His first pitch in 2005 came just after new years. “Let’s show the public what our facility looks like on the inside,” he said. Simple enough. “F.A.B.,” the phrase heard in “Thunderbirds,” crossed my mind for a moment. That’s not it. This is not the stage of some good kid’s dream. As someone once said, “art is an explosion.” Artists are explosive, and there are all kinds of booby traps laid around the facility.
“Kubo-san, this expression is pretty dangerous, do you think it’s ok?” I asked. It was a time when news of the Middle East was everywhere you looked.
Poster #1, ICC Festival 2005 (2005)
Poster #2, ICC Festival 2005 (2005)
Poster #3, ICC Festival 2005 (2005)
Sapporo Art Directors Club Award 2005: Selected
Hiroshi MAEDA
Art Director / Designer, Senior Partner, Banana Moon Studio Sapporo
Born in Sapporo, Japan, 1964.
Graduated from Hokkai Gakuen University Faculty of Economics, obtained a master’s degree from Hokkaido University’s Graduate School of International Media and Communication. Began writing articles, designing magazines and books, and producing ads for a publishing company while he was an undergraduate student. Worked for a design firm for some time, then started his own company called Banana Moon Studio in 1990.
Starting with structuring branding strategy for national and international companies and organizations, he deals with planning products and services, packaging, promotion, advertising, publishing, and space design.
His works have received several awards around the world, and have been collected in museums such as the Musée de la Publicité in France.
Contact: maeda@bananamoon.jp
