This 1965 poster is for the exhibition Persona, organized by influential critic and editor of Graphi

This 1965 poster is for the exhibition Persona, organized by influential critic and editor of Graphic Design, A Quarterly Review for Graphic Design and Art Direction, Masaru Katsumie (1909–1983) and held at the Matsuya Ginza department store in Tokyo, Japan. Persona was an exhibition of graphic design objecting to the increasing impersonality of design and emphasizing individuality in design work. Featured were the second, younger generation of Japanese designers coupled with the more established names, including international designers (16 total): Awazu Kiyoshi, Fukuda Shigeo, Hosoya Gan, Katayama Toshihiro, Katsui Mitsuo, Kimura Tsunehisa, Nagai Kazumasa, Tanaka Ikko, Uno Akira, Wada Makoto, Yokoo Tadanori, Yusaku Kamekura, and Paul Davis, Louis Dorfsman, Karl Gerstner and Jan Lenica. Ikko Tanaka was not only a participant, he also helped organize and design the exhibition. In fact, Davis, Dorfsman, Gerstner and Lenica were invited to take part because Tanaka had met them during his international travels from 1960–1965. On the title, Tanaka said: The expectation which I had invested in the title ‘Persona’ was the individuality which flourishes under the common denominator of ‘design’. This historically significant poster is for sale in the Display Bookstore along with the Persona catalog (introduction, participant text, list of works displayed with black/white portraits and examples of design work).  -- source link

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