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About

Creating an illustration of this simple, expressive poem.
My first thought was “Where do roses blossom?”
Are ashes the result of outrageous destruction and death?
If that’s the case, perhaps roses bloom in the land of the dead.
So I drew ghosts, as the inhabitants of the land of the dead.
While I was drawing, I felt that those ghosts, which should be dead, were coming to life a little.
What I was thinking of as “the land of the dead” may well be “the land of those who have yet to be born.”
That’s what this illustration is about.

Igarashi Daisuke

Born 1969 in Saitama, Japan. Based in Kanagawa, Japan.
After graduating from the Department of Painting in the Faculty of Art and Design at Tama Art University, manga artist Igarashi Daisuke made his debut winning the newcomer award Afternoon Shiki Sho Awards presented by the manga magazine Gekkan Afutanun (Monthly Afternoon) published by Kodansha in 1993. With expressive depictions and delicate brush strokes, he creates worlds that somehow manage to be both horrifying and beautiful. Into these worlds he mixes nature and the creatures that inhabit it. Major works include the series “Little Forest” (2002–05), which was turned into live-action films in Japan and South Korea, and “Witches” (2003–04) and “Children of the Sea” (2006–11), both of which won the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Division Excellence Award. Igarashi is currently working on the “Kamakura Bake Neko Club” serial in Kodansha’s manga magazine Be Love. He also provides numerous illustrations for insert and cover of the books.

Typeset/Logotype

The Ishii Gothic font used for the Japanese text and the Gerstner-Programm font used for the Western text were both developed for use in phototypesetting and fell out of use with the transition to desktop publishing, but have recently been revised for use in the digital environment. The phototypesetting technology that took the place of letterpress enabled the efficient transmission of information through the flexible combination of letters and characters, and was adopted for a range of uses in the postwar period. Through a reconsideration of these fonts, which have come down to us through the complexities of history, we embody the Triennale’s concept of looking at the relationships between human beings and the environment.

Okada Wanaka

photo:
Daiki Oka

Born 1990 in Aichi, Japan. Based in Aichi, Japan.
Graphic designer Okada Wanaka has worked in graphic design since 2018, after graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Shinshu University. Her work is predominantly in the field of art, mainly producing designs for PR publications and books. Major graphic design works for PR purposes include αM Project 2023–2024 Re-development of Development, GalleryαM (2023, Tokyo, Japan) and Frame and Wave, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (2023, Aichi, Japan).

Kano Daisuke

photo:
Takeshi Miyamoto

Born 1992 in Aichi, Japan. Based in Kanagawa, Japan.
Graphic designer Kano Daisuke handles book design, with a particular focus on the areas of art and culture, as well as exhibition PR materials and other projects. He is a part-time lecturer in the graphic arts course at Tama Art University. Major projects include the magazine NEUTRAL COLORS (NEUTRAL COLORS, 2020–present), the design journal Ilmm (FLOOAT, 2024 – present), and the Japanese version of “Radicant” by Nicolas Bourriaud (Film Art, Inc., 2022).