The Yusaku Kamekura Design Award was established in 1999 to honor the achievements of the late graphic designer Yusaku Kamekura (1915-1997), and to contribute to the further development of the graphic design field. Operation of the award program and selection of the winner, chosen annually, are performed by the Japan Graphic Designers Association Inc. (JAGDA). JAGDA awards the prize to the designer whose works are judged most worthy among all entries featured in its yearbook, Graphic Design in Japan.

The 15th Yusaku Kamekura Design Award was bestowed on Keiko Hirano for her work created in tandem with the 60th anniversary celebration of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT). Ms. Hirano embraces the ideal of creating optimal communication through design at Communication Design Laboratory (CDL), which she established together with fellow designer Aoshi Kudo. She is active in a broad cross-section of fields, her works to date including product design and total planning of NTT DoCoMo’s “F702iD Shosa” series of mobile phones, development of “Luminescence” white paper for Takeo and Tokushu Paper Mfg., exhibition planning, book editing, etc.

Ms. Hirano has been artistically involved with MOMAT since 2002, when she created a symbol mark and performed visual identity planning in conjunction with the museum’s renewal opening on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The work she performed for MOMAT’s 60th anniversary won the 15th Yusaku Kamekura Design Award on the judges’ evaluation that it represents dignified and sincerely executed work that makes us recall the inherent social role graphic design is meant to play.

CREATION GALLERY G8 is pleased to host a solo exhibition to commemorate Ms. Hirano’s winning of this highly regarded award.

The award-winning works created to commemorate the 60th anniversary of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo