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Category
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID
ADC101_ILT063M
About the Work
It’s 2020 and the normally boisterous downtown streets are mostly deserted, the nights wrapped in silence. Yet not all is doom and gloom. Rather, many have found this time a chance to revisit the joys of daily life. We created an illustration book encouraging all to cherish the quiet nights of 2020. Back in the 1200s, the people of Japan enjoyed the custom of reciting poems about everchanging emotions while sipping sake and gazing at the moon’s reflection on the surface of the lake. This custom is similar to those nights during the corona-virus pandemic when we could not gather with friends or colleagues, which left time for becoming lost in thought while gazing at the moon. Illustrations of the moon and a woman reflected on the lake, with fluctuations and distortions expressing the discovery of everyday joy and the anxiety triggered by the uncertainty of daily life. These impressions are further accented with words of changing emotions and sentiments. Silver ink recreates the peaceful reflections shimmering on the water surface. Elliptical shapes imply the sake-filled ochoko brought to one’s lips while savoring the lake, the mirror images, and the moon. The hope is that each person who takes this book in hand remembers such a quiet night, and is encouraged to cherish the moon each night, experience a richer life each and every day.
2022 Awards
Total Points: 3
Merit Honor
Credits
Agency
Dentsu Inc. / Tokyo
Design Firm
Plug Ltd. / Tokyo
Publisher
NISSHO CO. / Tokyo
Art Director
Kimiko Sekido
Copywriter
Sayaka Arimoto
Minami Nakazawa
Creative Director
Sayaka Arimoto
Designer
Junya Nagai
Manabu Kimura
Yiwen Kao
Illustrator
Kimiko Sekido
Producer
Yoshitaka Nakano
Printing Director
Noriaki Tosaki
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