The Prelude Exhibition of The First Shanghai Graphic Design Biennale – TopoPoster: International Poster Design Exhibition, after six months (June – December, 2025) of planning and preparation, was successfully held from December 13 to December 22, 2025. As one of the larger-scale exhibitions in recent years featuring an international selection of works in China, it showcased over 300 representative poster designs from 153 influential contemporary designers and studios active in the forefront of the field across 28 countries.

Tohoku University of Art & Design Graduation Research & Project Exhibition 2024

This project involves creating a visual identity (VI) for an exhibition at a multidisciplinary university where both art and design are studied. The theme of the exhibition is “a different right answer.” For this VI, we used the Japanese kanji character “芸” (which signifies art) and the katakana character “デ” (the initial of “design”) as motifs. It expresses how the ideas and methods of art and design intersect to generate new and alternative “right answers.”

Ren Takaya

Creative Director: Daisuke Nakayama
Art Director, Graphic Designer: Ren Takaya
Motion Designer: Hirokazu Sato