TATSUO MIYAJIMA: Sky of Time

TATSUO MIYAJIMA:

Sky of Time - EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art

The identity for ‘Sky of Time’ – an exhibition featuring the world-famous Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima @tatsuomiyajimastudio in @emmamuseum. The titular work with neon green lights has been specifically created for this exhibition space. The same glowing green is embraced in the identity, creating a link to Miyajima’s LED numbers together with the mechanical letterforms of the typography. Green: Pantone 802. Typeface: Grilli Type Cinetype

Exhibition intro wall

Tatsuo Miyajima at EMMA. The book is bilingual: finnish & english

INVITATION: Die cut #8 / 1:1 scale LED as in real artwork

Invitation to the opening night. 1:1 size LED

Artwork info card

Exhibition catalogue

Spine / edge painting

Sky of Time is an exhibition featuring the world-famous Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima.

The titular work has been specifically created for the exhibition space at EMMA. The work consists of a number of LED devices, twinkling in the dark room like stars, their ever-changing numerals reflecting on concepts such as infinity and eternity. Miyajima’s choice of the neon green colour was inspired by the northern lights the artist witnessed on his visit to Rovaniemi. The same green was chosen as the main colour of the exhibition’s publication, shining bright like the LEDs of the work. The mechanical letterforms of the typography create a link to Miyajima’s LED numbers, whilst maintaining excellent legibility in small sizes. The layout of the cover is based on the work, its inverted colours beaming from bookshelves, just like Miyajima’s LEDs.

Pages 4-5

LED detail of the artwork Sky of Time

Glow around the LED numbers with Pantone 802

Contents page

Text page

Japanese text

Chapter page

The photographs of the work “Sky of Time” were processed with colour profiles from Color Library, a database developed at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. This allowed the use of an additional spot colour channel; the same neon green that is used throughout the publication.