O Tomato Parco

John Warwicker

'O Tomato Parco' marked the 25th anniversary of tomato and was held throughout Parco (Museum, Cinema, rooftop and store) in Shibuya and throughout the surrounding streets via AR and the big screen at Shibuya crossing. Curation, exhibition design, publication design, outside banners, posters, AR, VR filming, interactive/responsive media merchandising. Bespoke typeface based on the original logo designed by Takenobu Igarashi. Project won the Tokyo Type Directors special prize (2016).

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    John Warwicker, Australia (2019)

    In 1981 Warwicker was awarded MA (Distinction) for his 'Research into Electronic Interactive Media’, from Birmingham Polytechnic. In 1991 he co-founded the multi-award winning, multi-disciplinary, creative studio, Tomato. He has...

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    'O Tomato Parco' marked the 25th anniversary of tomato and was held throughout Parco (Museum, Cinema, rooftop and store) in Shibuya and throughout the surrounding streets via AR and the big screen at Shibuya crossing. Curation, exhibition design, publication design, outside banners, posters, AR, VR filming, interactive/responsive media merchandising. Bespoke typeface based on the original logo designed by Takenobu Igarashi. Project won the Tokyo Type Directors special prize (2016).

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    In 1981 Warwicker was awarded MA (Distinction) for his 'Research into Electronic Interactive Media’, from Birmingham Polytechnic. In 1991 he co-founded the multi-award winning, multi-disciplinary, creative studio, Tomato. He has also authored 6 books including ‘The Floating World’ - winner of the Tokyo TDC Special Prize (2010). His work has been featured in hundreds of publications around the world and has lectured in over 40 counties. In 2017 he became Professor of Design at the VCA, University of Melbourne and is visiting Professor at Zokei University and Kuwasawa Design School, Tokyo. His work embraces: Typography, Graphic Design, Photography, Publication Design, Strategy, Architectural Design, Drawing, Painting, Film Direction, Writing, Industrial/Furniture Design and Interactive Design… either as separate disciplines or in alchemic combinations. Since 2007 he has been a member of the Tokyo Type Directors Club. Warwicker considers himself an 'Amateur', journeying without boundaries: Thought into Form, by means of Language, in any medium (or combination of media); placed, strategically/poetically, at any scale or duration, into the world. Alchemy not Science.

    Education

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    Professor

    • Undergraduate,  
    • Postgraduate

    2017 – today

    • University of Melbourne (Australia)

    Professor of Graphic Design

      2017 – today

      • (Australia)

      Agencies

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      • DaGama

        1981 – 1984

      • A&M Records, London

        1986 – 1988

      • Vivid I.D.

        1988 – 1991