Idea Magazine No. 406 - Ikki Kobayashi — Life through Design Drawings

Direction by Ikki Kobayashi, Akitsu Sekkei and IdeaDesign by Akitsu Sekkei Ikki Kobayashi is currently a freelance graphic designer based in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from Tama Art University in 2015, Kobayashi joined Shiseido, where he was in charge of design work in the Creative Division. After retiring, he received the JAGDA New Designer Award in 2019. This feature contains 38 new drawings that Kobayashi has worked on since the winter of 2023. In his work, the designs start primarily as sketches and drawings, from which he creates paths in Illustrator and completes them digitally. In order to focus on the process of these ‘forms’ created by Kobayashi and how he thinks through the physical act of drawing, we have entitled the feature Life through Design Drawings, showcasing his drawings before they reach the design stage. The pages have been designed by Akitsu Sekkei, Kobayashi’s classmate from university and a close follower of his activities. In our advanced digital society, m