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Yusaku Kamekura Tokyo 1964 Olympics

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Yusaku Kamekura Tokyo 1964 Olympics
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Artist: Yusaku Kamekura Title: Tokyo 1964 - Emblem Medium: Fine Art Giclee on Canvas Image Size: Approximately 20 inches x 10.75 inches Unframed on Unstretched Canvas Details: This is a beautiful Reproduction Giclee on Archival Canvas In March 1960 Masaru Katsumi was commissioned as project manager to initiate the design project "Tokyo 1964" together with Yusaku Kamekura, Hara Hiromu and other designers. They first created the basic concept and defined the essential parameters in order to make the designs internationally understandable and at the same time to represent the character of Japanese culture. For the next step, the design of an emblem, a competition was organised, to which only a handfull of Japanese designers were invited, including Nagai Kazumasa, Inagaki Koichiro, Yusaku Kamekura, Tanaka Ikko, Kono Takashi and Sugiura Kohei. Finally, in June 1960 Yusaku Kamekura's proposal unanimously won the competition. His simple, minimalist design with only the most nec- essary elements became a globally recognised and successful emblem: the basic form here is the red circle as a symbol of the rising sun and of Japan, plus the Olympic rings, the name of the host city and the year.