heiQuicci HARATA nu Art Project "i Love Words ＆ Images"

この度、書容設計家、エディトリアル・アーティスト・羽良多平吉氏のオリジナル・シルクスクリーンを作成していく過程で、羽良多氏個人所蔵によるYMO関連などの貴重な作品が見つかりました。
羽良多氏自身が大切にしてきたものですが、これを機に、これらの作品を大切に保管していただける方の手に渡りましたらという想いで、販売という形で株式会社スモールライトが請け負うことになりました。
ぜひこの機会をご利用いただけましたら幸いです。

■１　【羽良多平吉 個人蔵 art works】販売中

■２　シルクスクリーン作品は通常通り販売中です。

羽良多平吉による新作シルクスクリーン作品のアートプロジェクト

書容設計家、エディトリアル・アーティストとして活動する羽良多平吉。
YMO（イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ）のアルバムジャケットやツアービジュアルなどを起点に、書籍、レコードジャケット、雑誌、コミックスなど多岐にわたる媒体で、数々の伝説的な仕事を成し遂げてきました。
構成から色彩設計に至るまでディティールを追求する、独創的かつ精緻な書容設計とデザインは、見るものを魅了してやみません。

この度、羽良多平吉が過去に手がけたデザインの中でもファンに熱烈に支持される雑誌『HEAVEN』の表紙ビジュアル（1980年）、雑誌『季刊 ダヴレクシィー“WX-raY”創刊準備号』（1979年）をオマージュした自身が再構成する初のシルクスクリーン作品を制作いたしました。

作品はすべてエディションナンバーと直筆サイン入りで、各限定枚数での販売となります。オフセット印刷とは異なる、シルクスクリーンならではの多彩で繊細な表現。羽良多平吉の世界が、独特の厚みを持つインクの質感やレイヤー構造の駆使により、唯一無二の圧倒的な存在感を放つ作品に仕上がりました。
写真では伝わらないこのクオリティーを、ぜひ実際にご覧ください。

■Hommage to “HEAVEN”, the magazine of Visionary Vision and Beyond. 132,000円（税込）／発売中（限定50枚）
■Hommage to “WX-raY”, catch the wave. 132,000円（税込）／発売中（限定75枚）

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New silkscreen works art project by HeiQuicci HARATA

HeiQuicci HARATA is a Shoyō-Sekkei designer/editorial artist.
Starting with the cover art for YMO's(Yellow Magic Orchestra) album and tour visual, he has achieved a number of legendary works in a wide range of media, including books, record jackets, magazines and comics.His original and exquisite Shoyō-Sekkei and designs, which pursue detail in everything from composition to colour design, are fascinating to look at.

HeiQuicci HARATA will now produce his first silkscreen work, a tribute to his most fan-favourite designs, the
magazine “HEAVEN" cover visual(1980), the magazine "a quarterly magazine, Davlexy WX-raY, preparatory issue for the first issue", which he will reconstruct himself.

All works are edition-numbered and signed by HeiQuicci HARATA, and each is available in a limited number.The variety and delicacy of expression that only silkscreening can offer, which differs from offset printing.The world of HeiQuicci Harata's work has been created with a unique and overwhelming presence through the use of the unique thickness of the ink texture and the layered structure.Please come and see this quality in person, which cannot be conveyed by photographs.

■Hommage to “HEAVEN”, the magazine of Visionary Vision and Beyond. 132,000yen (incl. tax)/Now on sale (limited to 50 copies).

■Hommage to “WX-raY”, catch the wave. 132,000yen (incl. tax)/Now on sale (limited to 75 copies)

*Countries available for shipping
South Korea, U.S.A., Australia, France, Germany, HongKong, Singapore, Taiwan, U.K.UnitedArabEmirates

Few contemporary designers’ bodies of work capture the imagination like Tokyo-born Harata HeiQuicci. Harata’s decades-long career as one of contemporary Japanese graphic design’s guiding lights—from his editorial design work for cultural magazines to the visual design for the legendary music group Yellow Magic Orchestra.Harata helped to lead Japanese graphic design into the postmodern era with his use of vibrant color, halftone texture, and atmospheric, expressive typography—all of this manifested in the oversize magazine WX-raY published by Harata with his friends and magazines such as Heaven, Japonaiserie and Quick Japan. These graphic exploits, alongside record covers for pop musicians in the 70s and 80s, made Harata a cult star in Japanese graphic culture. In the 1980s and 1990s, Harata designed covers for the manga, which explore both graphic and semantic space. He also designed the spine for the monthly avant-garde manga anthology magazine Garo. When stacked together, each of Garo’s monthly issues’ spines reveals a panoramic composition by year. It is breathtaking to walk into bookstores and to see them arranged together.He opened his own design studio, EDiX, in 1989 and began exploring the possibilities of digital graphic design; freed from the constraints of phototypesetting, Harata’s compositions became increasingly atmospheric, complex, and lyrical.Few designers have had the opportunity to work on projects as diverse as Harata—from bestselling records across genres to film theory to photography monographs to literature to manga. Far fewer have developed a signature graphic/typographic style, signifying the work of a true auteur—the work of Harata HeiQuicci is singular in his approach.He made work that anticipated the possibilities of digital technology decades before the actual technology arrived and much of the graphic design that emerged in the early 1990s merely aped what he had already accomplished visually.It is particularly delightful that  Harata created new silkscreen work inspired by older projects and incorporating motifs from history, re-presenting them in a new—and prominent—context. Harata’s legacy and oeuvre is one of constant progression.As always, everyone else is just trying to catch up with him.