Symbiosis Tokyo Biennale
Exhibition identity and a three-poster silkscreen series for the 2024 biennale at Tokyo Arts Center.
Client
Kinetic Arts Biennale Tokyo
Year
2024
Role
Exhibition identity, posters, wayfinding
Scope
Identity, 3 posters, signage, catalogue cover
Duration
5 months
One word, one grid, one green, repeated until the city starts to recognise it.
The brief
The biennale ran from 18 October to 30 November 2024 across several venues. It needed to be recognisable from across a station platform, in Japanese and English.
The work
Every piece is built on the same 6 × 8 construction grid. The first poster stacks the name until it fills the sheet, the second reduces it to an interlocking knot symbol, the third sets TOKYO vertically through the grid. All three are two-colour silkscreen: black ink over a fluorescent green that is slightly misregistered on purpose.
Poster II: the knot symbol, 2-colour silkscreen
Poster III: TOKYO set through the construction grid
The result
The poster series was hung in all 30 stations on the Yamanote line and won a Tokyo TDC Annual Award in 2025.
3
Silkscreen posters
6 × 8
Construction grid
30
Stations