IDEA #400 — Graphic Design Recollections & Records

Design Archives as a Creative Resource Archiving—the act of preparing the past for future use through the organization of material and works collected and stored carefully—has been spearheaded throughout Japan mainly by art museums, museums, and university libraries. There has been a growing interest in archiving in the areas of culture and art. This has accompanied the wave of digitization and emergence of media art seen since the early 2000s, and has led to the launch of businesses and organizations dealing in archival digitization, spurring deliberation on better ways to build and make use of enhanced creative databases.Although poster collections and private archives of designers and artists who supported the dawn of modern design exist in museums across Europe and the United States, few parallels exist in Japan, and in many of those cases, there are no systems established at these design museums and design archives to make their stored resources available to the public. If we assu