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●LOGO DESIGN● COMIC-DAYS BLOG


Katsuhiro Otomo has designed two logos for the  official blog of the comic app "Comic DAYS" that features news related to Kodansha's publications: Young magazine, Morning, afternoon, evening, Kiss, BE · LOVE

Blog's first post: https://comic-days.com/blog/entry/attouteki
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●TALK● JIRO MATSUMOTO X KATSUHIRO OTOMO



Katsuhiro Otomo has been participating for the last week in various events in the TRIBUTE TO OTOMO EXHIBITION. Today a  talk show by Jiro Matsumoto (松本次郎) and Katsuhiro Otomo took place in Tower Records Shibuya Store 8F Exhibition Hall. 
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●SIGNATURE● TRIBUTE TO OTOMO exhibition




Katsuhiro Otomo has been signing in the TRIBUTE TO OTOMO exhibition that is taking place until june 18th in the SpaceHACHIKAI on the eighth floor of the Tower Records Building in Tokyo. Here some of the signature illustrations he did for the attenders.
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●TALK● KOSUKE KAWAMURA X KATSUHIRO OTOMO



To celebrate the TRIBUTE TO OTOMO EXHIBITION, a talk show by Kosuke Kawamura (河村康輔  and Katsuhiro Otomo took place in Tower Records Shibuya Store 8F Exhibition Hali. Kawamura has collaborated various times with Otomo in recent years the last ne in the Shibuya PARCO construction site wall.

via: http://towershibuya.jp/2017/06/03/99302 …

●TALK● KIM JUNG GI X KATSUHIRO OTOMO




To commemorate the TRIBUTE TO OTOMO EXHIBITION, today a talk show took place in Tower Records Shibuya Store 8F Exhibition Hall between  Korean illustrator Kim Jung Gi and Katsuhiro Otomo. Image via: @OtomoTribute

●EXHIBITION● TRIBUTE TO OTOMO (トリビュート 大友克洋)




Tower Records has organized an exhibition featuring the artwork collected in the book TRIBUTE TO OTOMO that pays omage to Katsuhiro Otomo's career. The book is an extended edition of the catalogue of the homonym exhibition that took place in the 'Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême' back in 2016. Artist such as Masamune Shirow, Masakazu Katsura, Tsutomu Nihei and Katsuya Terada pay tribute to Otomo in this exhibition and his illustrations can be purchased as t-shirt and as other kinds of merchandise too.

The exhibition will take place from june 3 to 18, 2017 in the SpaceHACHIKAI on the eighth floor of the Tower Records Building ( タワーレコード渋谷店) in Tokyo. Entry will be 800¥.

Follow Tribute to Otomo Exhibiton on Twitter: @OtomoTribute

List of available products and prices:
■Main Visual T-shirt ¥5,400
■Main Visual Tote Bag ¥3,000
■Illustration T-shirts:
· Hisashi Eguchi ¥4,800
· Masamune Shirow ¥5,000
· Sushio ¥4,800
· Fumiko Takano ¥4,800
· Katsuya Terada ¥4,800
· Tsutomu Nihei ¥4,800
· Jiro Taniguchi ¥4,800
· Yoshida Sensha ¥4,800
· Ludovic Debeurme ¥4,800
■Can batch set ① ~ ⑤ ¥6,480 each
■Original label beer ¥1,000
■Illustration poster ¥3,000 each
· Masakazu Katsura
· Masamune Shirow
· Range Murata
· Hiroyuki Asada
· Mochizuki Minettaro
· Akihiko Yoshida
· Atsushi Kamijo  ¥2,000

●SIGNATURE● TRIBUTE TO OTOMO mural


Katsuhiro Otomo made a signed selfportrait on the mural of the TRIBUTE TO OTOMO exhibition that opens its doors on june 3 in SpaceHACHIKAI on the eighth floor of the Tower Records Building.



●TV PROGRAM● NICHIYŌ BIJUTSUKAN 'BRUEGEL × KATSUHIRO OTOMO' (日曜美術館「ブリューゲル×大友克洋」)



The 44th issue of NHK's Nichiyō Bijutsukan (日曜美術館) TV program focuses on 'A trip to feel Bruegel in Antwerp, Belgium' (ベルギー・アントワープへ　ブリューゲルを感じる旅). Kastuhiro Otomo's contribution to the TOWER OF BABEL exhibition that is taking place in Tokyo, with the illustration INSDE BABEL is a central element of the 45 min long feature.

●INTERVIEW● OLLIE BARDER X KATSUHIRO OTOMO



The Forbes magazine contributor Ollie Barder has interviewed Otomo extensively at his studio.

Read the full interview here: https://goo.gl/LzDSLh

Ollie Barder covers gaming and pop-culture in japan. You can follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. He has also founded and continue to manage the mecha gaming site, Mecha Damashii. He also does toy reviews for http://HobbyLink.tv

●ILLUSTRATED ESSAY● MUSICA NOSTRA (ムジカ・ノストラ) #46

MUSICA NOSTRA (ムジカ・ノストラ) #46Published in Shueisha's GRAND JUMP (グランドジャンプ) no. 12 magazine in 2017-V-17.
2 pages | B&W.

MAGAZINE DETAILS
Publisher: Shueisha (集英社)
Release date: 2017-V-17
Issue date: 2016-XI-2
Language: Japanese
Size: 26 x 18 x 2 cm
Retail price: ￥350

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●EVENT● SHIBUYA PARCO


Kosuke Kawamura (河村康輔) and Katsuhiro Otomo will collaborate once again, this time covering with art the Shibuya PARCO Construction site, in Tokyo. Starting today and until the end of construction works in the summer 2019, Otomo's images collaged by Kawamura will cover the whole construction site wall. The events in AKIRA are set in a future Neo-Tokyo in the year 2019.

●MAGAZINE● GEIJUTSU SHINCHO 5 [May 2017]



This May issue of Geijutsu Shincho (芸術新潮) magazine features a exclusive report on the production process of Katsuhiro Otomo's last illustration "INSIDE BABEL" created for the exhibition BABEL that opened it's doors last week in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (東京都美術館). Along with articles and talks with art historian Yoko Mori (森洋子) this issue covers various historical aspects of Brueghels painting as well as Otomo's new approach, his tour to Netherlands and the challenges of the process.

MAGAZINE DETAILS
Publisher: Shinchosha (新潮社)
Release date: 2017-IV-25
Language: Japanese
Number of pages:
Size: 28.2 x 20.6 x 1 cm
Retail price: ￥1,440

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●MAGAZINE● SHUKAN SHINCHO 17 (週刊新潮) [4/27]



This week's Shukan Shincho (週刊新潮) magazine features a 4 page report on Otomo's latest illustration work: INSIDE BABEL.

MAGAZINE DETAILS
Publisher: Shinchosha (新潮社)
Release date: 2017-IV-20
Language: Japanese
Number of pages:
Size: 25.8 x 18 x 0.5 cm
Retail price: ¥400





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●EVENT● 'THE TOWER OF BABEL' EXHIBITION



Today opened its doors the exhibition "The Tower of Babel" and the 16th masters - Beyond the Boss (ボイマンス美術館所蔵 ブリューゲル「バベルの塔」展 16世紀ネーデルラントの至宝 ― ボスを超えて ―)  in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (東京都美術館) and will be opened to public until July 2, 2017.

Official website: http://babel2017.jp



Katsuhiro Otomo's INSIDE BABEL collaborative reinterpretation of the classic painting THE TOWER OF BABEL painted by Pieter Brueghel will be on display in the entrance. Otomo's work is a cross-section of the tower imagining how it would be from the inside. Two versions of the digital illustration are presented in the exhibition, one respecting the overall mood of the painting and the other one enhancing the cut-out section to highlight  the interior for better appreciation of details.



Otomo's hand drawn work-in-progress illustrations are  also on display at the exhibition. Both the digital painting and the hand drawn illustrations reproduction, as well as t-shirts (¥2.800) and tote bags (¥4.500) will be available at the museum store during the exhibition period and online at the Asahi Store.

A limited to 150 signature edition of the illustration signed by Katsuhiro Otomo and Kosuke Kawamura is also available in the Asahi Store with a retail price of ¥85,000.

●PRESS CONFERENCE● INSIDE BABEL


Katsuhiro Otomo and Kosuke Kawamura unveiled today to the media their last collaboration INSIDE BABEL. Asahi Shinbun covers the news with a video of the press conference and a sneak peak inside Otomo's studio.

●ILLUSTRATION● INSIDE BABEL


Katsuhiro Otomo has collaborated with collage artist Kosuke Kawamura  (河村康輔)  in a digital illustration that reinterprets  the classic painting THE TOWER OF BABEL painted by Pieter Brueghel in the year 1568 and exhibited in the Museum BVB, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The digital print that measures 90 × 110.5 cm will be  shown in the upcoming exhibition Collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Bruegel's "The Tower of Babel"  and the 16th masters - Beyond the Boss  (ボイマンス美術館所蔵 ブリューゲル「バベルの塔」展 16世紀ネーデルラントの至宝 ― ボスを超えて ―) that will take place in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (東京都美術館) from April 18, 2017 to July 2, 2017 and in the National Museum of Art (国立国際美術館) from July 18 2017 to October 15, 2017.

Otomo, who lists Brueghel as one of his favorite painters, decided to reinterpred the painting focusing on the internal structure of the Tower of Babel. Prior to the production, he visited the Boijmans Museum of Art in Rotterdam and planned the idea after exchanging opinions with the museum curators. The coloring of the work was handled by Kosuke Kawamura, a collage artist who has collaborated with Otomo before. They used a digital collage method to synthesize the hand-drawn sketches by Otomo into the original painting and then paste over 20,000 small parts from all over the tower's painting.

Official website: http://babel2017.jp

Duplicate of the darwing and other goods will be available at the museum store during the exhibition period and online here: https://shop.asahi.com/

source: asahi

●MOOK● KICHIJOJI NO HON (吉祥寺のほん)



This Mook (magazine book) celebrates the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of Inokashira Park (井の頭恩賜公園) . The publication presents  writers, cartoonists, musicians, actors from the Kichijoji area such as Jun Ishikawa (いしかわじゅん), Eguchi Hisashi (江口寿史), Satoshi Otake (大竹聡), Okubumi Hikaru (奥泉光), Mitsuyo Tsunoda (角田光代), Masaru Katayama (片山杜秀), Hiromi Kawakami (川上弘美), Shibamon Fumi (柴門ふみ), Toru Takeda (武田徹), Tokumaru Shugo (トクマルシューゴ), Yasuto Higuchi (樋口泰人), Maki Hiroti (マキヒロチ), Naoki Yoshi (又吉直樹) and of course Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋)


BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Shinchosha (新潮社)
Release date: 2017-III-27
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 144
Size: 26 x 18.4 x 1 cm
Retail price: ¥ 961
ISBN-10: 4107902463
ISBN-13: 978-4107902467

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●COMMERCIAL● TOYOTA CH-R | NEO TOKYO 2017 ver.




TOYOTA has collaboated with various artists and brands in a series of comercials for the CH-R model with the tagline 'CROSSOVER THE WORLD'.  Katsuhiro Otomo directed the segment 'NEO TOKYO 2017 ver.' that revisits the futuristic Tokyo city as seen in his 1988 movie AKIRA. 

Toyota's official site presents an interview with Otomo and his storyboards for the project:

Here a list of the artist and brands collaborating in this Toyota commercials and their respective special videos:

■ Tomica (トミカ) [VIDEO] [WEB]
■ Street Fighter II [VIDEO] [WEB]
■Tetsuo Hara (原哲夫篇) [VIDEO] [WEB]

The final Commercials can be seen here [CM-30''] [CM-75'']

●TV PROGRAM● KURIĒTĀ-TACHI NO DNA ~ NIPPON ANIME 100-NENSHI ~ (クリエーターたちのDNA～ニッポンアニメ100年史～)


NHK celebrates 100 years of Japanese animation with the special program  BS Premium: DNA OF CREATORS ~ 100 YEARS OF HISTORY OF JAPANESE ANIMATION ~. The program includes interviews with:

Takuro Araki (荒木哲郎), Anno Hideaki  (庵野秀明), Isshuka Atsuko (いしづかあつこ), Otomo Katsuhiro (大友克洋), Mamoru Oshii  (押井守), Yuichi Oda (小田部羊一), Hiroshi Sasagawa ( 笹川ひろし), Sato Junichi (佐藤順一), Sugii Gisaburo (杉井ギサブロー), Kazuya Tsurumaki (鶴巻和哉), Yoshiyuki Tomino (富野由悠季), Terumoto Sachiyo (寺本幸代),（Ryuuki Nagai  (長井龍雪), Hiromasa Yonebayashi  (米林宏昌)

●BOOK● TRIBUTE TO OTOMO (トリビュート 大友克洋)



Kodansha and Glénat will publish this year an extended edition of the TRIBUTE TO OTOMO catalogue created for the exhibition that took place last year in the 'Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême'. This new edition includes all the illustrations featured in the exhibition plus a great amount of new ones by artist such as Masamune Shirow, Masakazu Katsura, Tsutomu Nihei and Katsuya Terada. Kodansha will release later this year an english edition in the US and Glénat a french edition in France.

BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Kodansha (講談社)
Release date: 2017-I-26
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 168
Size: 320×257mm
Retail price: ￥ 5,400
ISBN-10: 4063650111
ISBN-13: 978-4063650112

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●FRENCH EDITION● TRIBUTE TO OTOMO
BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Glénat
Release date: 2017-I-18
Language: French
Number of pages: 168
Size: 32 x 2,2 x 25,7 cm
Retail price: 35€
ISBN-10: 2344018670
ISBN-13: 978-2344018675

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●ENGLISH EDITION● OTOMO: A Global Tribute to the Mind Behind Akira
BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Kodansha
Release date: 2017-III-28
Language: English
Number of pages: 168
Size: 27x 31cm
Retail price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 1632365227
ISBN-13: 978-1632365224

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