Members of ASIFA-Japan

Masahiko KURASHIMA

Masahiko KURASHIMA

Visualartist
Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Bunkyo Gakuin Universtiy
Member of Japan Graphic Designers Association

CONTACT
E-mail: kurashima@bgu.ac.jp
PROFILE

From advertising ( design, illustration, TV program title logo and video design) to art works (dance images and original characters which create a high-definition world view), Kurashima has a number of achievements on his works. He has been producing CG works since the early 1980s. He has been exploring the possibility of high-definition graphics in CG, as well as producing and researching CG works through the portrayal under the theme of human body, since 1994. Kurashima has been making effort to present contents of originality. Member of Japan Graphics Designers Association (JAGDA).

Representative works

- Exhibition "Shi ji fu ken" at Recto Verso Gallery, Tokyo, 2012
- Exhibition "Ginza Project" at Gallery Ginza 1 chime, Tokyo, 2011
- Film screening at "Laval Virtual 2010", France, 2010
- Film screening at an international CG conference "SIGGRAPH Asia 2009", Yokohama, Japan
- Received Jury Recommendation at "2005 Japan Media Arts Festival"
- During 2004 - 2010, exhibited at various CG conferences, "ASIAGRAPH" at Aichi Expo (Japan), as well as in Beijing and Tokyo
- Film screening at "Sweden-Japan Art Exchange Program: Link Our Valuable Earth 2004", Kanagawa, Japan
- Exhibition "Dance Wind" at Niigata-kan Nespace, Tokyo
- Winning various advertising awards
- CG art works published in high school text books (1998, Nihon Bunkyo Shuppan Co., Ltd.).