{"id":316774,"date":"2025-11-27T13:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/316774\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:20:15","slug":"jo-iijimas-graphic-design-works-are-cosmic-swirls-of-moving-image-and-blended-brand-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/316774\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo Iijima\u2019s graphic design works are cosmic swirls of moving image and blended brand identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"zql78\">\u201cEver since I landed on Earth, I\u2019ve known words to be limiting,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itsnicethat.com\/ones-to-watch-2025-showcase\/jo-iijima\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jo Iijima<\/a>, a graphic designer and creative based in New York City. \u201cVisuals, however, speak to me in infinite ways.\u201d Through design, Jo layers cultures, colours and typography that go beyond mere language and dimension \u2013 and it shows. His brand identity, campaign, art direction, Risograph printing and custom typography work embraces a chaotic blend of Japanese and English, putting diverse letterforms and graphic textures into a blender. \u201cBecause I\u2019ve lived in so many cities, I see Japanese culture from a cosmic point of view. My roots are in Japan, but my imagination floats somewhere out in space,\u201d says Jo.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"290oe\">The rhythms of Jo\u2019s moving images are a blistering swirl of technicolour and personality borrowed from the \u201cplayful eccentricity\u201d of Japanese culture. Jo cites J-pop as an inspiration in pushing everything to the 200% (just listen to the ear-popping walls of volume of Ging Nang Boyz). As well as that, vocaloid artist Hatsune Miku influences Jo\u2019s impossibly high tempos \u2013 he exaggerates visuals with \u201cjoy and purpose\u201d. Jo\u2019s work wants to stay in people\u2019s, something he ensures with sparks and whiplashing movement. \u201cFrom the glowing vibrant Chinese character signs in Hong Kong, to the neon sounds of Tokyo\u2019s arcades, to the dynamic rhythm of people in New York, all these memories swirl together inside me like a vibrant colorful collage from a cosmic point of view,\u201d shares Jo. \u201cDesign isn\u2019t just something I create; it\u2019s something that has been waiting for me like a memory from the far future. I see a world no one else has seen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEver since I landed on Earth, I\u2019ve known words to be limiting,\u201d says Jo Iijima, a graphic designer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-316774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}