{"product_id":"wakidaasuka_happening","title":"HAPPENING","description":"\u003cp\u003e“HAPPENING,” an art book by graphic designer and art director Asuka Wakida.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection of works based on her master's thesis at Tokyo University of the Arts, featuring Wakida's own diary entries, photographs, and other actual records. It includes illustrations of people she met and events that occurred each day, presented on a two-page spread per day. New works from 2018 were added, and it was published by STAIRS PRESS in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the title \"HAPPENING\" suggests, the book depicts not extraordinary events but rather the small happenings of everyday life. Conversations with friends, landscapes seen during travel, people encountered in the city, subtle shifts in emotion—such fragments are quietly rendered with soft lines and colors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our daily lives are full of happenings.\u003cbr\u003eEvery seemingly insignificant day is wonderful and fateful.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs these words convey, the book is underpinned by an outlook that meticulously observes daily life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile an illustration collection, it also evokes the feeling of a diary, a drawing book, a design book, or even a personal novel, crystallizing Asuka Wakida's very sensibility towards life into a single volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book design is by Hana Yazaki. The soft codex binding is also a charming feature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecipient of the Taito City Mayor's Encouragement Award in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Title] HAPPENING\u003cbr\u003e[Publisher] STAIRS PRESS\u003cbr\u003e[Publication Date] October 2019\u003cbr\u003e[Page Count] 216 pages\u003cbr\u003e[Dimensions] Approx. 120×160×21mm\u003cbr\u003e[Format] Board cover, codex binding, 4C\u003cbr\u003e[Language] Japanese \/ English\u003cbr\u003e[Title Reading] HAPPENING\u003cbr\u003e[Author\/Editor, etc.] Asuka Wakida \/ Author, Hana Yazaki \/ Book Design, Editing, Wan Chaofan \/ Editing, Maki Sato \/ Translation\u003cbr\u003e[Printing] Inunick\u003cbr\u003e[ISBN] 9784908851070\u003cbr\u003e[Condition] New\u003cbr\u003e[Accessories] Bookmark\u003cbr\u003e[Featured In] -\u003cbr\u003e[Related Exhibition] 2020 \"HAPPENING\" (MIDORI.so2 Gallery OMOTESANDO)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAsuka Wakida (wakida asuka) 1993-\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Aichi Prefecture in 1993. Graphic designer, art director.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGraduated from the Department of Design at Tokyo University of the Arts and completed her master's degree at the same university. After working at Cozfish, she became independent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile engaged in design across a wide range of fields including books, exhibitions, advertising, and fashion brands, she also continues to create her own artworks such as art books and scarves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe has handled numerous art direction and graphic design projects for PARCO, LUMINE, HARUTA, ZUCCa, and the Doraemon 50th Anniversary Project, among others. Her designs are characterized by their ability to meticulously capture emotions and atmospheres found in daily life, along with a distinctive sense of color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u0026lt; Related Figures \u0026gt;\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShin Sobue, Kazunari Hattori, Kon Ito, pink pepper\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"わきだあすか｜脇田あすか \/ WAKIDA Asuka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44287405686826,"sku":null,"price":4400.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0649\/4280\/0938\/files\/happening-3760444.png?v=1774421773","url":"https:\/\/bunbuku.pro\/en\/products\/wakidaasuka_happening","provider":"文福","version":"1.0","type":"link"}