Master of Graphic designer : Ikko Tanaka

Ikko Tanaka, The Master of Graphic Designer

Ikko Tanaka, designer in japan. Born in Japan Nara city at 1930. Ikko Tanaka created a style of graphic design that fused modernism principles and aesthetics with the Japanese tradition.
He studied art at the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts.  He was employed as a textile designer with the Kanegafuchi Spinning Co., Kyoto (1950–52), and then worked for the Sankei Shinbun Press, Tokyo, as a graphic designer (1952–57). In 1960 he co-founded the Nippon Design Centre in Tokyo with Yusaku Kamekura, and from 1961 to 1965 he lectured at the Kuwazawa Institute of Design, Tokyo. In 1963 he established his own studio—the Tanaka Design Atelier—in Tokyo, changing the name to Ikko Tanaka Design Studio in 1976.

He designed posters, corporate logos, book and magazine layouts and exhibition displays, for example the Japanese Government’s History Pavilion displays at Expo ’70, Osaka, and the Oceanic Cultural Museum displays at Ocean Expo ’75, Okinawa. In 1975 he was appointed Creative Director of Seibu Department Stores Ltd and became responsible for art direction of the Sezon group.

Kobe Biennial; Ikko Tanaka

Amnesty International; Ikko Tanaka

Mackintosh Design, Ikko Tanaka

Nihon Buyo ; ikko tanaka  

Tanaka Sharaku; Ikko Tanak

Kimono Exhibition; Ikko Tanaka

Imagination of Letters; Ikko Tanaka

Flower Arrangement; Ikko Tanaka

Hanae Mori; Ikko Tanaka

Theatre poster; Ikko Tanaka

The New Spirit Of Japanese Design: Print; Ikko Tanaka

Close-up of Japan, London 1985; Ikko Tanaka

At 10 January 2002, Tanaka died of illness,died 71 years old, and he never married.

Since 1960, he was awarded Kodansha Publishing Culture Award, "Daily newspaper" industrial design award, the Minister of Arts Choice Awards Newcomer Award, the New York ADC Gold ."Daily newspaper" Art Award, Japan Culture Design Award, Purple Ribbon Medal. His work can be seen in art galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Mexico.