Mano-Dharma Concert

Year: 1970

Format: Poster

Media: Paper

Technique(s): Offset Printing

Designer Overview
Kiyoshi Awazu

Feburary 19, 1929 - April 28, 2009

Japan

Kiyoshi Awazu was a self-taught painter and graphic designer with significant contributions to poster design, experimental films, and advocating for social issues. Following his departure from Hosei University, Awazu crafted his own path to success through his first career milestone working in the advertising department of Nikkatsu film studios. In 1964, Awazu started his own design firm that later led him to organizing Expose in 1968, an art symposium at the Sogetsu Art Center where both Ichiyanagi and Kurokawa contributed as well. With work so highly regarded, Awazu served as a panelist, jury and exhibiting artist at the International Design Conference in Aspen. Awazu has won several awards and prizes over the course of various exhibitions, commending him for his beautiful illustrations and inventive experimentation of materials in his designs.

Many of his works are on display at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanagawa and has had a big international success. Awazu’s son, Ken Awazu, continues to preserve his father’s legacy in his psychedelic and thought-provoking compositions.