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.

美しいHUG！Beautiful HUG

The art project and exhibition “Beautiful HUG!” held at the Hachinohe Art Museum embodies the museum’s philosophy of being an “Art Farm for Encounters and Learning.”

The title “HUG” symbolizes an attitude of embracing and acknowledging differing opinions and values. The main visual was designed to appear both like arms wrapped in a hug and like a natural phenomenon such as the aurora.

An aurora is created when elements of different properties interact and generate friction in the atmosphere, making it a fitting symbol of “encounters and tensions between differences.” Through particles forming a “gradient that never fully blends,” the design expresses a state of engaging and intersecting with one another while remaining distinct—“not completely mixing, yet coexisting.”

Yuuri Mikami

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