Nagashima Rikako

Nagashima Rikako specialises in graphic design. Her works include identity, sign planning, book and spatial design. Environmental considerations are foremost in her designs, and she works with an awareness of the environmental damage caused by design. Examples in her practice include intentionally incorporating ink stains and scrap paper generated in the printing process as a pattern to avoid creating waste (David Lynch, From the Fringes of the Mind), spatial design that uses offcut fabric from product manufacture (DESCENTE BLANC, 10th exhibition), or textile design in which ink stains on scrap paper are printed on fabric made from recycled plastic bottles  (Kinnasand, Scrap_CMYK). At the Venice Biennale in 2021, she designed the Japanese pavilion as an exhibiting artist on the theme of material circulation.