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Kusama Yayoi

Yayoi Kusama is a painter, sculptor, and 'obsessional artist' from Japan who has been representing by using 'polka dots' in her entire creations. Her works have strongly affected the categories of Pop art and contemporary art. The forms of artwork are usually sculptures and street art which are suitable in a wide range of areas for displaying. Back to her childhood trauma, she had experienced a period in which value males more than females. On the other hand, Japan was conservative in the 20th century which all criticised her art style. Even affected her mental health and attempted suicide repeatedly. Her mental stresses turned to the passion and insane of creating her art, her unexpected world, and made her one of the world's representative artists.

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Cole, R. (2019). Yayoi Kusama | Biography, Art, & Facts. In Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yayoi-Kusama

Pound, C. (2018, September 26). Yayoi Kusama’s extraordinary survival story. Www.bbc.com. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180925-yayoi-kusamas-extraordinary-survival-story

Shinkai Makoto

Shinkai Makoto is a director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer from Japan. There are some representative animate movies directed by him, such as Suzume (2022), Your Name. (2016) and The Garden of Words (2013). Each of them is the trend in the market of animation in Japan and worldwide.

The characteristic of his directed works is richly crafted, hand-drawn backgrounds and light patterns, with an emphasis on natural imagery. The background design is a reference to real Japanese streets. As same as the world he created in the movie, the cross-over between real life and virtual life is integrated into the plot. The theory is successful at creating a 'magical realism'.

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American Cinematheque. (2023, April). Across Time and Space: The Films of Makoto Shinkai. American Cinematheque. https://www.americancinematheque.com/series/across-time-and-space-the-films-of-makoto-shinkai/#:~:text=Drawing%20inspiration%20from%20the%20legendary

FANDOM. (2013). Makoto Shinkai. Makoto Shinkai Wiki. https://makotoshinkai.fandom.com/wiki/Makoto_Shinkai

Mateusz Urbanowicz

Mateusz Urbanowicz is a Polish illustrator, artist and animator who moved to Japan for marriage and painting careers. He belongs to the Comix Wave Films animation studio with Shinkai Makoto. He participated in the scene design and main illustration of the movie 'Your Name' and 'Suzume', and the primary vision design of other movie posters.

He is passionate about the watercolour painting of old buildings. He found interest in the streets with alleys, temples and lower buildings which surprised Mateusz Urbanowicz like a 'surprise pack'. The illustration accumulated a long period and formed a book named 'Boutique de Tokyo'. Moreover, he is also passionate about short animation which represents his work produced individually.

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Time Out Tokyo Editors . (2018, April 5). I, Tokyo: Mateusz Urbanowicz. Time out Tokyo. https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/things-to-do/i-tokyo-mateusz-urbanowicz

Urbanowicz, M. (n.d.). About Me · Mateusz Urbanowicz. Mateuszurbanowicz.com. https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/about/

Miyuzaki Hayao

Miyazaki Hayao is a representative animate director and illustrator in Japan. Also one of the co-founders in Studio Ghibli with Isao Takahata. The animated movies directed by him are almost all popular, such as 'Castle in the Sky (1986), 'Spirit Away' (2001), 'Howl's Moving Castle (2004) and he released his manifesto of retirement with his latest directed animation named 'The Boy and the Heron' in 2023.

Compared with his mature identity in person, the style of his directed animation is almost in a warm, comfortable mood with an exquisite stroke of character and worldbuilding. Moreover, a profound message usually hides behind the plot in each story, such as the environmental protection in the movie 'Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind' and the discussion of life in the movie 'The Boy and the Heron'. These characteristics form him a representative stage in the world.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (2014, November 3). ayao Miyazaki. Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. https://www.oscars.org/governors-awards/2014/hayao-miyazaki

Ray, M. (2019). Miyazaki Hayao | Biography, Movies, & Facts. In Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Miyazaki-Hayao

Say HANA

SAY Hana is the pseudonym for an illustrator, digital designer and graphic designer from Taiwan. The actual name is Lin Hua. The characteristic of her artwork remains a bunch of details within the main character. The gorgeousness is not reduced even in the low-saturated tone of colour palettes.

One of her most famous projects is the 'Personification of Diseases', which is a project from TWCDC (Taiwan Center for Disease Control and Prevention) and other creatives from Taiwan. This project aims to let people gain knowledge about the diseases around the Earth without fearing facing the actual symptom shown in real photographs, such as COVID-19 or Syphilis. Even this project has a controversy of 'embellishing the actual disease'. The character design, the clothes style or decorative elements, and even the content of the magazine-type writing are all been criticised for the history, the symptom and the definition of disease accordingly.

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Hua, L. (n.d.). https://twitter.com/sayhanawork?lang=en. Twitter. Retrieved August 16, 2023, from https://twitter.com/sayhanawork?lang=en

TWCDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). (2020). 【DISEASE│ #疾病擬人】採訪、撰文｜超疾編... - 疾病管制署 - 1922防疫達人. Zh-Tw.facebook.com. https://www.facebook.com/TWCDC/posts/10158383047838407/?locale=zh_TW

WONDER. (n.d.). 終於明白，在自己的時區裡準時就好：插畫家林花用細膩筆觸打破框架，從創作理解自我、再以溫柔擁抱世界・WONDER 覺誌. WONDER 覺誌. https://wonder.am/2022/01/03/icreate-sayhana/

Hanatsuki

Hanatsuki is a pseudonym for a fashion designer from Japan. The actual name of the designer does not disclose. The work from Hanatsuki is groundbreaking at combining traditional clothes with contemporary trends. The colour palette of Hanatsuki's work is soft in ground tone and represents the traditional Kimono patterns. Hanatsuki published a book named 'GENDAI SOSAKU WAFUKU (Contemporary creative kimono)', which is a collection of Hanatsuki's provided work in several categories, and aiming to design contemporary cloth but also combine the beauty of traditions in Japan.

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Hanatsuki. (n.d.). https://twitter.com/haruharu_sunny. Twitter. Retrieved August 17, 2023, from https://twitter.com/haruharu_sunny

花月. (2021). 現代創作和服. KADOKAWA.

Japanese Creative Bookstore. (2022, October 15). GENDAI SOSAKU WAFUKU (Contemporary creative kimono) – HANATSUKI ART WORKS. Japanese Creative Bookstore. https://japanese-creative-books.com/product/illustration/contemporary-creative-kimono-hanatsuki/

Design in Public Arenas - Auckland War Memorial Museum

These are the public locker decoration in the AM (Auckland war memorial museum). There are stickers of ancient 'bags' and 'vessels' on each locker. This is a playful strategy for decorating a locker and making them involved in the mood of the museum. It also increases the chance for people to gain knowledge once they select the locker and check the numbered list for each one of the cool ancient bags or vessels.

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