2012

Title: HEIWA OHASHI
Design: Yukimasa Okumura

I was requested to create a poster for Hiroshima Appeals for the first time as a graphic designer born after World War II. At a later date, I walked around Hiroshima City and decided eventually to create a poster under the theme of the railings of the Heiwa Ohashi Bridge, designed by Isamu Noguchi. I sketched the railings and shot them with a 6×6 film camera until sunset. After returning to Tokyo, I prepared for poster creation, selecting photographs and tracing large prints with India ink and fine-point brushes. I also hand-drew the logo. I continued to work on the poster, and it took around two weeks. I selected this method because I believed that it was adding labor (my own work), instead of expressing myself, is the only way for me, who was born in 1947, to commit to the theme of Hiroshima.