Gridskipper

I don't just write for magazines — I also have an extreme love for them, one that can get, I'll admit, a bit dirty. It's therefore my obligation to point out the current exhibition taking place at the Ginza Graphic Gallery, "Welcome to Magazine Pool: Ten Creators Crossing Boundaries for Magazine Design." In celebration of the Japan Magazine Publishers Association and the Japan Book Publishers Association's 50th anniversary, the show brings together the works of ten top magazine art directors and designers, with the first floor dedicated to work created specifically for the show — and also published as a special limited print run issue of the Singaporean magazine WERK. The second floor is devoted to examples of each participant's groundbreaking work.

Curated by Yasushi Fujimoto — himself a top art director and responsible for the look of quite a few titles currently found on Tokyo newsstands — it brought back memories of the very first show I ever saw at the GGG. Covering his work and that of CAP (the design studio he founded), it was the first time I was able to take in entire walls covered in magazine page layouts, which awakened certain, ahem, senses in me (as I said at the start, my love for magazines does get dirty). Not to be missed; the exhibition runs until November 27.

Ginza Graphic Gallery [Official site]

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