Every Day Is A Good Day

 

The visual identity and exhibition book for an exhibition at the popular Spiral Art Center in Tokyo, Japan.

Nichi nichi kore kōnichi.

For the exhibition ‘Every Day Is A Good Day’ I curated for Spiral, Tokyo, Japan, I designed the exhibition identity and book. The concept was inspired by the ancient proverb Nichi nichi kore kōnichi (日々是好日), or Every Day Is A Good Day, first spoken more than a thousand years ago by Zen Master Yun Men. It is a profound meditation on living: that one’s experience of life is based on one’s perception of it. The Yin Yang symbol, modified with the character ‘日’ for ‘day,’ communicated the idea succinctly, where the spot yellow symbolized the radiance of the Sun.

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The catalogue was unconventionally small and intimate. The open spine binding and soft Japanese paper gave the feeling of a traditional Japanese poetry handbook. Only the first twenty pages contained content, allowing the owner to respond fill up the rest as a dairy.

Printed on random pages are Zen-like instructions such as "Remember to breathe" or "Call an old friend."

The exhibition tote bag highlighted the duality of the exhibition’s curatorial statement: one side is for work, the other for play.

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