- 25.02.28
[MIHONCHO HONTEN］TAKEO PAPER PRODUCTS: EXHIBIT 2025 “courtyard”
Dates: March 12th, 2025 (Wed.) - April 11th, 2025 (Fri.)
Open hours: 11: 00 - 18: 00
Except: Saturdays, Sundays, official holidays
* Special Open Day: March 22nd, 2025 (Sat.) 13:00-17:00
A courtyard creates a place that is a world apart by introducing light, wind, and plants into a limited space within a building. Similarly, paper provides a space that allows artists to express their creativity in unlimited ways within an area that is limited on all sides.
Likening individual TAKEO PAPER PRODUCTS to a courtyard, this exhibition presents worlds in which artists express themselves freely on the page.
Hand lettering artist bechori is giving a demonstration at the exhibition venue on the special opening day of Saturday,
March 22, 2025. You can have bechori add lettering or a name of your choice to TAKEO PAPER PRODUCTS you have bought, turning them into one-of-a-kind items. (Requests for this will be accepted until 16:30.)
We hope to see you there.
Artists
Izumi Suge, graphic designer and picture book author
Graduated from Musashino Art University Junior College of Art and Design's Graphics Department. Resident at Studio Dumbar / VormVijf in the Netherlands as a Canon 400 program fellow in 2000. Worked at the Hara Design Institute at Nippon Design Center before establishing the design studio KLOP in 2005. Handles design work for corporate advertising, sales promotion tools, catalogs, magazine layouts, and other projects. Won first prize in the 25th Pinpoint Picture Book Competition for Noraneko Nora (Nora, the kitten).
Shino Misawa, designer and artist
Born in Miyagi Prefecture. After graduating from the Department of Industrial Design at Chiba University, served as a designer in the Product Planning Department of Noevir Co., Ltd. as well as at the Taku Satoh Design Office before going independent and establishing hanauta works in 2012. Handles a wide range of projects, from planning to direction, graphic design, product design, space design, book design, and text design for TV programs. Lecturer in design course at the Department of Engineering in Chiba University’s Faculty of Engineering since 2012. Part-time lecturer in the Department of Information Design of Tama Art University since 2023. Regular member of the Japan Commercial Environmental Design Association. Awards include the Good Design Award Grand Prize and the Tokyo ADC Hiromu Hara Award. http://www.hanauta-works.jp
bechori, hand lettering artist
Began teaching himself hand lettering while holding down a job in 2016. Started working as an independent freelancer in 2019. Creates title lettering for corporate products, and has provided many examples of his work. Holds lettering workshops throughout the world. Actively spread the joy of hand lettering in various ways, including by posting on social media, streaming live broadcasts, and holding regular lessons. Published four books, including Hando Retaringu no Nazoricho (Hand lettering tracing book) published by Tsuchiya Shoten.
New products
At the show, we will be unveiling these new products, which can be purchased at the shop on the ground floor of MIHONCHO HONTEN.
MATOU CARD HOLDER
Dressco ONIONSKIN NOTEBOOK LARGE DUSTY BLUE (Available while supplies last) *
*This product will only be available at the exhibition venue and on the webstore.