Tomoko Miho

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.

Tomoko Miho
Born(1931-09-02)September 2, 1931
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
DiedFebruary 10, 2012(2012-02-10) (aged 80)
New York City, New York, U.S.
OccupationGraphic Designer

Biography

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,[8] 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.[5][9]

References
  1. Vienne, Veronique. "Tomoko Miho". AIGA. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  2. "Japanese American Internee Data File: Tomoko Kawakami". National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  3. "Tomoko Miho Obituary". New York Times. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  4. "Tomoko Miho". Cooper Hewitt Collection. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
  5. Breuer, Gerda, Meer, Julia (ed): Women in Graphic Design, p. 515, Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 Biography Tomoko Miho.
  6. "Tomoko Miho". The Collection. Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  7. "Tomoko Miho". The Collection. Library of Congress. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  8. "Tomoko Miho". The Collection. Cooper Hewitt. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  9. "Tomoko Miho". New York Times. Retrieved 3 April 2015.

Further reading
  • 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
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