Artist
Kiyoshi Awazu
1929–2009
Kiyoshi Awazu was an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Kiyoshi Awazu was a Japanese graphic designer, active in the post-WWII era in the fields of poster design, architecture design, set design, filmmaking, and illustration. A self-taught artist, Awazu possessed an eclectic and variegated graphic style that employed vibrant color palettes, appropriated and subverted motifs from both traditional Japanese art and design as well as contemporary pop culture, and incorporated supergraphics and expressive typography across a range of scales and spatial contexts.
Collections represented
Museum