You may remember from last year and the year before, around this time, I uploaded a poster for an event called Kiku Chikyu Haku — the Chrysanthemum Earth Festival. This year I designed the poster again, but I went with a very different feeling this time. This year they really wanted to reach out to kids, and make the poster reflect that it’s a fun, family event. For the poster this year I went with sort of a Where’s Waldo style poster that also serves as a map of the festival grounds. It was fun to get into all of the minute details, and to add some fun things too, like the 5 “Kiku Rangers,” a Fukuiraptor, an Echizen crab, and Ecchan the stork from my comic series.

If you’re in the area on October 9th, please come and enjoy the festival!

Kiku Chikyu Hakue 2011

I worked on one more project during August that I didn’t have time to post about last month, though I wanted to. Once again, the Fukui Railway held its speed-dating-train service, this year in conjunction with it’s “BeerDen” izakaya-train (thus the beer in the poster). I did the previous 2 posters for LoveDen, and I was happy to be asked to do it for a 3rd year in a row. This is the result:

LoveDen 2011

Last year’s LoveDen was another great success, and as you can see in the photo, a couple who met on LoveDen recently got married! Let’s hope this year’s event was as successful!