Shigeo Fukuda - Poster Design - Chris Nowlan

 

Shigeo Fukuda was a sculptor, graphic artist and poster designer who created optical illusions. He was born in Tokyo. His art pieces usually portray deception, such as Lunch With a Helmet On, a sculpture created entirely from forks, knives, and spoons, that casts a detailed shadow of a motorcycle.

The New York Times described how Fukuda's posters "distilled complex concepts into compelling images of logo-simplicity". His commercial work included his creation of the official poster for the 1970 World's Fair in Osaka. A 1980 poster created for Amnesty International features a clenched fist interwoven with barbed wire, with the letter "S" in the word "Amnesty" at the top of the poster formed from a linked shackle. "Victory 1945", one of his best-known works, features a projectile heading straight at the opening of the barrel of a cannon. A pair of posters created to celebrate Earth Day include a design showing the Earth as a seed opening against a solid sea-blue background and "1982 Happy Earth Day", which shows an axe with its head against the ground and a small branch sprouting upwards from its handle.

 

Links

http://designhistorymashup.blogspot.com/2008/04/shigeo-fukudas-poster-design.html

http://www3.icm.gov.mo/gate/gb/www.macauart.net/Gallery/ShowMIndexE.asp?cid=165&id=146&gid=8069&topicName=

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5976362.ece
http://www.spock.com/Shigeo-Fukuda
http://www.yaneff.com/html/plates/hl_30.html