IDEA #376 — Graphic designers and exhibitions

Issue #376 of Japan's IDEA magazine is largely about graphic designers and exhibitions from yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Writers like Tetsuya Goto and IDEA editor-in-chief Kiyonori Muroga explore the meaning of exhibitions to graphic designers today, beginning with a focus on the 27th Brno Biennial 2016, the world’s longest running design biennial. Included is an interview with Radim Peško, Tomáš Celizna, Adam Macháček, the curators of the 2016 Brno Biennial. Part 2, “The State of Graphic Design Exhibition Today,” covers the USA, Poland and South Korea through interview with Jon Sueda, David Crowley (“International Poser Biennale, Warsaw”), Min Choi and Hyungjin Kim (“Graphic Design, 2007-2015, Seoul”).  Part 3, “Japanese Graphic Design and the History of Exhibitions and Collections,” offers a chronology of Japanese exhibitions, with texts by Tatsuya Kuji and Tetsuya Goto. Part 4, “Study Room,” includes contributions from Aaron Nieh, Åbäke, Kyungsun Kymn, Yah-Leng Yu: Foreign Policy