Director Francis Ford Coppola collaborated with her on a gorgeous book of her designs for the movie that can be ridiculously difficult to find in the collector’s market.īlending a heightened sense of the dramatic with an arresting color balance, Eiko Ishioka’s work was inspiring and influential, particularly in our field. Eiko By Eiko by Eiko Ishioka 5 Paperback Eiko Ishioka ggg Books 68 (graphic design series of 68 Sleazy World Books) (2005) ISBN: 4887523440 Japanese Import Japanese Edition 11 Paperback 2099 Get it as soon as Thu, Oct 20 FREE Shipping on orders over 25 shipped by Amazon Only 2 left in stock - order soon. of four color offset lithograph prints of her work. Includes essays about Eiko by 15 Japanese artists, plus over 240 pgs. Eiko received the Oscar in 1992 for her stunning costumes for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Eiko Ishioka, Japan's most acclaimed designer, brought an eerie, sensual surrealism to film & theater, album covers, the Olympics & Cirque du Soleil, in the process earning an Oscar, a Grammy & a string of other honors. Eiko, you messed up my life and you are having a great time. Her work on The Cell was appropriately surreal and eerie while her recent designs for the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Broadway production were a definite highlight. Eiko, hai sconvolto la mia vita e ti stai divertendo. A designer of everything from album covers to set designs for stage plays to costumes for Cirque du Solil and a host of Hollywood films, Ms Ishioka’s style was instantly identifiable. Red was a definitive motif in her work, said to evoke eroticism. So it’s with sadness that I note the passing January 21 of Eiko Ishioka at the age of 73 from pancreatic cancer. Eiko Ishioka had a provocative eye for design that she often blended with her signature color red.
A shirt is a shirt, armor is armor, a crown is a crown, without the artist’s contribution, without their vision.
Part of creating memorable fantastic art has to do with designing costumes for the characters that will seem both “right” for the story and unique.
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