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

(1) [Harata Heikichi private collection artworks] for sale
Saturday, September 28, 2024, 12:00 noon

(2) [YMO goods from Heikichi Harada's private collection] Auction
September 28, 2024 (Saturday) 12:00 noon - October 12, 2024 (Saturday) 12:00 noon

It will be sold on this website. More details will be announced at a later date.

Art project featuring new silkscreen works by Heikichi Harada

Harada Heikichi works as a calligraphy designer and editorial artist.
Starting with the album jackets and tour visuals for YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra), he has accomplished numerous legendary works in a wide range of media, including books, record jackets, magazines, and comics.
The original and intricate typeface planning and design, which pursues detail from composition to color design, never ceases to fascinate those who see it.

This time, Heikichi Harada has produced his first silkscreen work, a reconstructed homage to the cover visuals of the magazine "HEAVEN" (1980), which are fervently supported by fans among his past designs, and the magazine "Quarterly D'Avlexy ​​"WX-raY" Inaugural Preparation Issue" (1979).

All works are numbered and autographed, and are sold in limited quantities. Unlike offset printing, silkscreen printing allows for colorful and delicate expression. The world of Harada Heikichi is expressed in a unique and overwhelming presence through the use of ink with a unique thickness and layered structure.
Please come and see this quality for yourself, as it cannot be conveyed in photographs.

■Hommage to “HEAVEN”, the magazine of Visionary Vision and Beyond. 132,000 yen (tax included) / On sale now (limited to 50 copies)
■Hommage to “WX-raY”, catch the wave. 132,000 yen (tax included) / On sale now (limited to 75 copies)

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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 color 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, USA, Australia, France, Germany, HongKong, Singapore, Taiwan, UKUnitedArabEmirates

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.