Tomoko Miho
Tomoko Miho | |
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| Born | September 2, 1931 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | February 10, 2012 (aged 80) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Graphic Designer |
Tomoko Miho (September 2, 1931 - February 10, 2012) was a Japanese-American graphic designer and recipient of the 1993 AIGA Medal.[1] She is known for her understanding of the relationship between space and object.
Biography
[edit]Tomoko Miho (née Kawakami) was born in Los Angeles in 1931 and spent her early days in the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona.[2][3]
She attended the Minneapolis School of Art and the Art Center School in Los Angeles where she earned a degree in industrial design.[4] She and her husband and fellow designer, James Miho, went traveling through Europe where she met Giovanni Pintori (director of Olivetti), Hans Erni, and Herbert Leupin, and visited the renowned Ulm School of Design. After her return to the United States, she worked at George Nelson Associates, Inc. under Creative Director Irving Harper and became his successor. She worked for Herman Miller furniture and the Center for Advanced Research in Design (for Container Corporation of America and Atlantic Richfield Company). In the 1980s she founded her own studio, Tomoko Miho & Co. Her clients included MoMA, Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Willem de Kooning Foundation, Kodansha International, and Aveda.[5]
Miho is noted for her contribution in the form of architectural posters in New York and Chicago. Today, they are in the Museum of Modern Art,[6] at the Library of Congress,[7] and at Cooper Hewitt,[4] and were published in design magazines like Novum Gebrauchsgraphik. Her work is strongly influenced by Swiss international typographic style. Her architecturally infused works were honored with numerous prizes and have been featured in international exhibitions.[3][5] In 2013, the Swedish Hall of Femmes project published a book focused on Miho, Hall of Femmes: Tomoko Miho.[8][9][10]
References
[edit]- ^ Vienne, Veronique (9 September 1993). "1993 AIGA Medalist: Tomoko Miho". American Institute of Graphic Arts. Archived from the original on 7 May 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ^ "Japanese American Internee Data File: Tomoko Kawakami". National Archives and Records Administration. Archived from the original on 3 June 2024. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Tomoko Miho Obituary". The New York Times. 26 February 2012. pp. A.20. ProQuest 923421120. Archived from the original on 3 June 2024. Retrieved 24 September 2015 – via Legacy.com.
- ^ a b "Tomoko Miho". Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Archived from the original on 3 June 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ a b Breuer, Gerda; Meer, Julia, eds. (2012). Women in Graphic Design 1890-2012. Berlin: Jovis. p. 515. ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8. OCLC 785504497.
- ^ "Artist: Tomoko Miho". Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 3 June 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ^ "Tomoko Miho". Library of Congress Catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ^ Bouabana, Samira; Tillman Sperandio, Angela (2013). Hall of Femmes: Tomoko Miho. Oyster Press. ISBN 9789197882750. OCLC 839920612.
- ^ "25-Plus Books on Women in Design". Designers & Books. 15 March 2023 [8 October 2013]. Archived from the original on 10 October 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ Margolin, Victor (2014). "Books Received". Design Issues. 30 (1): 99. doi:10.1162/DESI_e_00255. ISSN 0747-9360. JSTOR 24267028.
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Further reading
[edit]- Samira Bouabana; et al., eds. (2013). Hall of Femmes: Tomoko Miho. Stockholm: Hall of Femmes and Oyster Press. ISBN 9789197882750. Link to Worldcat
- Breuer, Gerda, Meer, Julia (ed): Women in Graphic Design, p. 475, 515, Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8