Ikko Tanaka (田中 一光, Tanaka Ikkō, January 13, 1930 – January 10, 2002) was a Japanese graphic designer.
Tanaka is widely recognized for his prolific body of interdisciplinary work, which includes graphic identity and visual matter for brands and corporations including Seibu Department Stores, Mazda, Issey Miyake, Hanae Mori, and Expo 85. He is credited with developing the foundational graphic identity for lifestyle brand Muji, emphasizing the "no brand" quality of their products through unadorned, charming line drawings paired with straightforward slogans. His use of bold, polychromatic geometries and his harnessing of the dynamic visual potential of typography are undergirded by a sensitivity towards traditional Japanese aesthetics. Though keenly sensitive to historical precedents and established conventions, Tanaka nevertheless maintained a degree of playfulness in his work, manipulating color, scale, and form to reconfigure familiar iconographies into fresh and accessible visual representations.
Tanaka is also widely recognized for his posters designs for Noh productions and other performances and exhibitions staged in Japan and beyond. He was active in realms of typography, exhibition design, and book design as well, and his publication Japan Style was released in 1980 alongside the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition of the same name. As a leading figure in postwar Japanese design, Tanaka is also credited with playing a role in the professionalization and expansion of the discipline.
IkkoTanaka (田中 一光, TanakaIkkō, January 13, 1930 – January 10, 2002) was a Japanese graphic designer. Tanaka is widely recognized for his prolific body...
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University has been a simplified ginkgo leaf since 1991 when designer IkkoTanaka created it for the university's sixtieth anniversary. In professional...
Olympic rings Shape: Square with rounded, wavy lines Yagi Kazumi (obverse) IkkoTanaka (reverse) Mint Bureau of the Finance Ministry 057.3 x 61.3 05 130 1976...
available at selected Muji stores. The first art director of Muji was IkkoTanaka. Tanaka is credited with developing the Muji concept together with Kazuko...
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Promotion of Art and Culture. In September 2012, she curated the exhibition "IkkoTanaka and Future/Past/East/West of Design" at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo....
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traveling exhibition organized by the Seibu Museum of Art and designed by IkkoTanaka.: 117 : 51 In "Food Journal/Wrapped Foods" (Shokumotsushi/Tsutsumareta...
direction studio. His design influences, including Aleksander Rodchenko, IkkoTanaka, Sani'ol Molk Ghafari, Roman Cieslewicz and Mirza Gholam-Reza Esfahani...
posters, that viewers could manipulate, by designers Kazumasa Nagai, IkkōTanaka, and Tadanori Yokoo. Other works featured reflective surfaces, such as...
Świerzy Árpád Szenes Rolf Szymanski T Jun Tabohashi Shinkichi Tajiri IkkōTanaka Antoni Tàpies Hervé Télémaque Fred Thieler Jean Tinguely Mark Tobey Henri...
Republic 1968 Waldemar Swierzy Poland 1966 Fumio Tachibana Japan 2006 IkkoTanaka Japan 1966 David Tartakover Israel 1998 Paolo Tassinari Italy 2005 Tiit...
University of the Arts in 1971. The same year, he and the graphic designer IkkōTanaka designed the medals for the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. Yagi designed...
Shogunate in 1573. He conquered most of Honshu island by 1580, and defeated the Ikkō-ikki rebels in the 1580s. Nobunaga's rule was noted for innovative military...
designers, including Kōhei Sugiura, Makoto Wada, Tadanori Yokoo, Akio Kanda, IkkōTanaka and Kiyoshi Awazu, who designed posters and promotional materials for...
decided to concentrate his forces to attack and eliminate the Ikkō-ikki from Mikawa. In the Ikkō-ikki ranks were some of Ieyasu's vassals, like Honda Masanobu...
Shinshū (True pure land Buddhism). However, as radical sectarian rebels of Ikkō-ikki which following Jōdo Shinshū broke out, Tadakatsu abandoned Jōdo Shinshū...
aunt and uncle misappropriated her money. Kasumi Arimura as Mineko Yatabe Ikkō Furuya [ja] as Shigeru Yatabe, Mineko's grandfather Ikki Sawamura as Minoru...
the time in the Liberal Democratic Party, which he inherited from Kakuei Tanaka, from the 1980s until his death in 2000. He was dubbed the "last shadow...
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