A Win­ston Smith / Kosuke Kawa­mura Col­lab­o­ra­tion Exhibition

pre­sented by ERECT Lab

Octo­ber and Novem­ber, 2010 — ERECT Lab spon­sored two exhi­bi­tions fea­tur­ing the col­lab­o­ra­tions of Win­ston and Kosuke Kawa­mura.  The first, enti­tled “33 Idols” was exhib­ited (open­ing Hal­loween) at Superdeluxe in Tokyo.  The sec­ond, enti­tled “22 Idols” was pre­sented at Pulp in Osaka.

Jan­u­ary 21, 2012 — The  exhi­bi­tion is enjoy­ing a second-coming at Daikanyama Build­ing 2 ivy and book­stores – along­side SHOHEI “57577”.

E Lab’s pub­li­ca­tion, a 22-page hard­back will be avail­able for pur­chase, fea­tur­ing the 22 Idols exhib­ited in the show.

The gallery below is a selec­tion of Winston’s con­tri­bu­tions to the project.

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Links:

Erect Lab

Daikanyama T-Site

SuperDeluxe

About Kosuke Kawamura

Born in 1979 in Hiroshima and cur­rently lives in Tokyo. Works as both Graphic Designer and Spe­cial Affect Designer. He is also a One Plus col­lage artist. Was accepted at Takashi Nemoto’s exhi­bi­tion, “Takashi Nemoto and oth­ers’ Pick! Cheer­ful Every­day”.  Now an art direc­tor for E Mag­a­zine that he has launched with INUNCHU. Col­lab­o­rated a T-shirt work with an apparel brand, “VANDALIZE” and also some graphic work for “NADA.”. Pro­duced numer­ous fly­ers for sev­eral lives and events.

Pub­lished num­bers of book designs and other mate­ri­als for design­ers such as : Takashi Nemoto, Masaya Hara, Nao­hiro Ukawa and Yuichi Jibiki. Together with Mr. Nemoto, pro­duces test-art comic, “Soleil Dis­ci­pline”. It cur­rently been pub­lished seri­ally for a quar­terly mag­a­zine TRASH-UP!  Started a live silk print in 2007. The silk screen project focuses on mon­e­tary value. Often taken on projects that deeply evolves around con­cepts. Has col­lab­o­rated with Win­ston Smith and KING JOE to par­tic­i­pate in both solo and group exhi­bi­tions in muse­ums and gal­leries. He keeps expand­ing his abil­ity as a graphic designer by tak­ing on dif­fer­ent medias of mate­ri­als: book designs, DVD/CD jacket designs, adver­tise­ment, apparel, events and others.

Blog: http://ameblo.jp/zaide/