About Tokyo 1964 (Kamekura)
Yusaku Kamekura's identity for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games was the first fully systematized Olympic visual program — a solid Hinomaru red sun disc above gold Olympic rings and a clean grotesque "TOKYO 1964." Kamekura set the mark on a deep black lacquer field as readily as on white, fusing Swiss typographic order with the radical minimalism of the Japanese flag. This system carries that authority into interface: one perfect red circle, a gold ring system, and a strict modular grid on near-black ground.
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Era
- 1950s–1990s; the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games identity
- Key figures
- Yusaku Kamekura · Masaru Katzumie · Yoshiro Yamashita
- Movements
- Japanese postwar graphic design · Swiss International Typographic Style · systematized Olympic identity
Tokyo 1964 (Kamekura) design spec
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ArchivoHeadings
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DM MonoMono
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