Searching for EUR-ASIA - Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik's Life Long Collaboration

• Prize
  Honorable Mention in Art & culture books / Books
• Company
  aizawa office Inc.
• Lead
  Yukihiko Aizawa
• Client
  Shinya Watanabe and Sangensha Publishers Inc.

The book's poster design, the culmination of an epic 25-year collaboration between two artists from Europe and Asia, is an accumulation of typography intended to be a visionary abstraction from thought and creation conceived with deep insight into history and philosophy. Our work attempts to harmonize with the visual images that symbolize the books and visualize the history, philosophy, and figuration that the two artists left for humanity by considering their continuity.

For us, design is about sharing what brings us joy. Through the act of making that is design, such as graphic, editorial, signs, and corporate identity design, we had the opportunity to encounter amazing people as well as projects. Not a single one of them, however, could have been completed solely by us. Design takes shape through the collaboration and the words that are exchanged with many other people. We want to share in that joy too. This is what we believe design to be.