- Names
- 福田繁雄
- FUKUDA Shigeo (index name)
- Fukuda Shigeo (display name)
- 福田繁雄 (Japanese display name)
- ふくだ しげお (transliterated hiragana)
- Date of birth
- 1932-02-04
- Birth place
- Taitō-ku, Tokyo
- Date of death
- 2009-01-11
- Death place
- Mitaka City, Tokyo
- Gender
- Male
- Fields of activity
- Sculpture
- Design
- 2019
- Tokyo Bunkazai Kenkyūjo (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties). “Fukuda Shigeo.” Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan Shosai Bukkosha Kiji. Last modified 2019-06-06. (in Japanese). https://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/bukko/28440.html
日本美術年鑑 / Year Book of Japanese Art
「福田繁雄」『日本美術年鑑』平成22年版(457-458頁)日本グラフィックデザイナー協会会長で、グラフィックデザイナーとして国際的に活躍した福田繁雄は、1月11日午後10時30分、くも膜下出血のため東京都内の病院で死去した。享年76。1932(昭和7)年2月4日、東京生まれ。田中国民学校卒業後、台東区今戸高等小学校に入学するが、太平洋戦争の激化により44年母親の実家のある岩手県二戸市福岡町に疎開。戦後51年同地の県立福岡高等学校卒業後、帰京すると53年東...
Wikipedia
Shigeo Fukuda (福田 繁雄, Fukuda Shigeo, February 4, 1932 – January 11, 2009) was a sculptor, medallist, graphic artist and poster designer who created optical illusions. His art pieces usually portray deception, such as Lunch With a Helmet On, a sculpture created entirely from forks, knives, and spoons, that casts a detailed shadow of a motorcycle.Fukuda was born on February 4, 1932 in Tokyo to a family that was involved in manufacturing toys. After the end of World War II, he became interested in the minimalist Swiss Style of graphic design, and graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1956.The New York Times described how Fukuda's posters \"distilled complex concepts into compelling images of logo-simplicity\". His commercial work included his creation of the official poster for the 1970 World's Fair in Osaka. A 1980 poster created for Amnesty International features a clenched fist interwoven with barbed wire, with the letter \"S\" in the word \"Amnesty\" at the top of the poster formed from a linked shackle. \"Victory 1945\", one of his best-known works, features a projectile heading straight at the opening of the barrel of a cannon. A pair of posters created to celebrate Earth Day include a design showing the Earth as a seed opening against a solid sea-blue background and \"1982 Happy Earth Day\", which shows an axe with its head against the ground and a small branch sprouting upwards from its handle.In 1987, Fukuda was inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in New York City, which described him as \"Japan's consummate visual communicator\", making him the first Japanese designer chosen for this recognition. The Art Directors Club noted the \"bitingly satirical commentary on the senselessness of war\" shown in \"Victory 1945\", which won him the grand prize at the 1975 Warsaw Poster Contest, a competition whose proceeds went to the Peace Fund Movement.His home outside Tokyo featured a 4-foot-high (1.2 m) front door that would appear far away from someone approaching the house. This door was a visual trick, with the actual entrance to the house being an unornamented white door designed to blend in seamlessly with the walls of the house.Fukuda died January 11, 2009, after suffering a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- 2023-02-20