Publications led through creative direction and project leadership.
ROLE
Art Direction
Product Operations
Project Leadership
OVERVIEW
A series of independent and collaborative artist publications bringing together artists across illustration, music, and poetry.
These projects use printed books as a shared physical format to connect collaborators and circulate their work beyond individual practices.
DELIVERY WINDOW
~3 months per project
死ねばいいのに
An illustration book adapted from a novel by Kyōgoku Natsuhiko.
“We should not confine perception,
just as we should not confine images within a frame.”
— 楓冗リアル, collaborator (2020)
Me, Through Music (僕と音楽)
A 32-page artist publication reimagining songs by Yorushika, developed through illustration, poetic writing in collaboration with a poet, and art direction.
In Memory of Love
A 64-page collaborative art book honoring wowaka. I initiated and directed the project, bringing together 31 illustrators to create works reimagining his songs.