Three Dimensions of Expression

catch x 高田唯

draw x 小林一毅

arrange x 佐々木俊

Opening Period ：15 Oct. 2021 - 20 Nov. 2021

11:00-19:00 (Closed on Monday)

Location：888 Huashan Road, Changning District, Shanghai

Producer&Organizer：atama

Cooperative Partner：Allright Graphics

今天的设计变得更简单，也更难了。

时代把平面设计从纸面带向了更多的场景中，技术、文化和社会环境的变化也在不断延展设计的定义。当下的设计更多聚焦在提案新的思考方式，或是更广义的价值创造上。关于平面设计中的「表现」这一环节的讨论,却显得模糊了起来。在这个节点，我们邀请了三位设计师，以「表现的维度」为题企划了本次展示。

表现方式的确立，往往意味着设计师自身理念和风格的形成。在高田唯、小林一毅和佐佐木俊的作品中，能看到很多他们对最为普通的日常风景的观察和思考，承载这种感知的正是他们的表现。

展览的契机来自于年初的一个不成熟的纪录片拍摄计划，除了作品表象之外，想借深入的取材，表现另一个日本设计的当下。我们选择了一些非常具有个人风格的日本设计师，通过采访和记录作品之外的「他们」，传达他们的日常观察，思考与作品之间的联系。在这个过程中我们清晰地意识到，他们独树一帜的表现，也许正与他们感受和观察生活的方式密切相关。本次展览，只是一次掀开帷幕一角的尝试。希望大家可以通过这个小窗口看看不一样的他们、再重新看看我们所处的生活世界里那些司空见惯的理所当然。

高田唯的表现是从捕捉观察的视角开始的。他的捕捉不仅体现在对生活中那些寻常到近乎琐碎的事物中潜藏的美的发现，更在他对自身与观察对象关系的审视与思考之间。本展将展出高田唯的新作『 TOWER 』和剪贴报纸『 trimming sports newspapers 』系列。塔是高田唯作品中首次出现的主题，在观展过程中不仅可以感受高田唯式的观察视角，还能看到他将平面转化成立体，再拓展到空间之中的最新尝试，让展示本身也成为了作品的一个不可分割的部分。

小林一毅的表现是身体通过墨水和纸张与世界对话。作为与互联网和信息技术一起成长的 90 后年轻设计师，他却少见的坚持着手绘之后再扫描手稿这一制作方法。他的造形中可以读到瑞士经典平面风格带来的影响，也看得到他从日本传统美术和工艺的继承和钻研。通过本次展出的新作 『 Between black & white - 18ANIMALI 』海报及原作手稿，不仅可以感受到他对图形细节的极致把控，还能窥见他的另一个创作视角：重构经典和传统。

佐佐木俊的表现是通过不断的配置和调整，在无机质的图形世界中找寻新的平衡。自主制作的作品中出现的意象大多来自于他在散步时漫无目的的思考。本次展览中，除了『 HUM人N 』系列的新作，佐佐木还把他长久以来坚持创作的小汽车系列变成了题为 『 交通阻塞 in Shanghai 』的展示空间，不同于纸面创作的巨大尺度感和色彩表现，让观展者可以直接体验佐佐木式的路面观察。

Today's design has become simpler and harder.

The era has brought graphic design from paper to more scenes, and changes in technology, culture and social environment are constantly extending the definition of design. The current design focuses more on new ways of thinking about proposals, or on value creation in a broader sense. The discussion about the part of "performance" in graphic design has become blurred. At this node, we invited three designers to plan this exhibition with the theme of "Dimensions of Performance".

The establishment of the way of expression often means the formation of the designer's own concept and style. In the works of Yui Takada, Kazuki Kobayashi, and Toshi Sasaki, you can see a lot of their observations and reflections on the most ordinary daily scenery, and it is their performance that carries this perception.

The opportunity for the exhibition came from an immature documentary filming plan at the beginning of the year. In addition to the appearance of the work, I wanted to borrow in-depth materials to express another Japanese design moment. We have selected some Japanese designers with very personal styles, and communicated their daily observations, thoughts and the connection between their works through interviews and records of "them" outside of the works. In this process, we clearly realized that their unique performance may be closely related to the way they feel and observe life. This exhibition is just an attempt to lift a corner of the curtain. I hope everyone can look at them through this small window, and then take a look at the commonplace in the life world we live in.

Yui Takada's performance starts from the perspective of capturing and observing. His capture is not only embodied in the discovery of the beauty hidden in the ordinary to nearly trivial things in life, but also in his examination and thinking of the relationship between himself and the object of observation. This exhibition will display Takada Yui’s new work "TOWER" and the cut-and-patch newspaper "trimming sports newspapers" series. The tower is the first theme that appears in Takada Yui’s work. During the exhibition, you can not only experience Takada Yui’s observation perspective, but also see his latest attempt to transform the plane into a body and then expand it into the space to make the display itself It has also become an integral part of the work.

Kobayashi's performance is that his body talks to the world through ink and paper. As a young designer born in the 90s who grew up with the Internet and information technology, he rarely insisted on the production method of scanning manuscripts after hand-painting. You can read the influence of the classic Swiss graphic style in his modeling, as well as his inheritance and study from Japanese traditional arts and crafts. Through the posters and original manuscripts of the new work "Between black & white-18ANIMALI" exhibited this time, you can not only feel his extreme control over graphic details, but also glimpse his other creative perspective: reconstructing classics and traditions.

Sasaki's performance is to find a new balance in the world of inorganic graphics through constant configuration and adjustment. Most of the images appearing in his self-produced works come from his aimless thinking while walking. In this exhibition, in addition to the new works of the "HUM Human N" series, Sasaki also turned the car series he has insisted on creating for a long time into an exhibition space titled "Traffic Congestion in Shanghai", which is different from the huge scale of paper creation. Sense and color performance, allowing visitors to directly experience the Sasaki-style pavement observation.