© Takahashi Hiroko
Kimonos, other textiles, and additional traditional Japanese crafts are re-imagined for modern culture into a wonder load of fresh graphic contemporary designs using reduced elements by artist Hiroko Takahashi. Images here represent a combination of past exhibition works and current goods for sale in Hiroko’s online shop or her brick and mortar atelier in Japan.
Artist, born in 1977 in Japan. Completed her Ph.D. in dyeing at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2008. She puts circles and straight lines freely and creates modern patterns. She is engaged in wide variety of creative works, especially Kimonos, while studying Japanese traditional craftsmanship and patterns.
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The patterns created by Hiroko Takahashi are all composed of limited components, circles and straight lines. This is to explore the maximum possibilities by utilizing the minimum elements while suggesting a metaphor of enjoying simple life, implying that in the current era when everything is easily accessible, one could still lead a happy life without being over demanding. The earth and the moon are in round shapes. It is also said that the very first drawing by human being is a circle. Circles have been well utilized as motifs in design in any time beyond regions and cultures. The potentialities of the well-accepted “circles” are inestimable.
© Takahashi Hiroko
© Takahashi Hiroko
© Takahashi Hiroko
© Takahashi Hiroko
© Takahashi Hiroko
© Takahashi Hiroko
© Takahashi Hiroko
© Takahashi Hiroko
© Takahashi Hiroko
© Takahashi Hiroko
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Outstanding! Monochrom Graphic Clothes… beautiful, the concept is just incredible.
As always, you have an amazing “flaire” to find some amazing stuff.
Hi egiova! Nice to see you again and thank you for the kind feedback/comment. –Amy