WORKS

Recently, RISOGRAPH has been gaining popularity among artists worldwide.Especially in Europe, there are many studios with RISOGRAPH and "GOCCOPRO," an easy-to-use digital screen maker that can make ascreen quickly. RISO interviewed "Knust Press" in the Netherlands and "Pamflett" in Norway; they are two of the leading studios in RISOART in Europe today.

RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION cosponsored "TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2022" held in October 2022, providing "RISOGRAPH", "GOCCOPRO" digital screen　maker and "MiScreen a4" compact digital screen maker. RISO also invited overseas artist studios from Norway and Netherland; that are leading the current RISO ART to participate in a special program organized by RISO ART studio based in Tokyo "Hand Saw Press".

RISO visited several junior high schools in Japan in the autumn of 2020 and ran screen printing workshops using RISO MiScreen a4. What did the students learn through creative activities and how did they enjoy the workshops? The following is the report on how the workshop in a junior high school in Ibaraki went.

2020 is the 40th anniversary year of digital duplicator RISOGRAPH since its launch. To commemorate this anniversary, RISO collaborated with Masafumi Arita, a designer to create new poster printed on RISOGRAPH.

The "RISO ART" which are artistic works created by “RISOGRAPH” printer has been expanding worldwide recently. In Korea the creative works utilized by RISOGRAPH has become popular among young creators.Here is an interview from representative of CORNERS the art studio located in Seoul.

From 5th Oct. – 10th Nov. 2019, the international performing art festival “FESTIVAL/TOKYO 19 “took place in Tokyo. RISO provided the RISOGRAPH digital duplicator for use in the “Drop-in Riso Zine Studio,” held as part of the F/T program. The printing studio was opened in the corner of shopping street and functioned as a place for artists working in a range of genres and locals to come along and interact through workshops on making zines.

TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2019 was held at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. The event featured around 300 domestic and international publishing company, gallery, and artist exhibitors displaying their creative art books and zines, including works created with RISOGRAPH. RISO supported the event by providing RISOGRAPH at the venue and printing ZINE.

A Movement to make unique flyers, posters, art works using the RISOGRAPH spreads nationwide. Here we introduce activities of RETRO PRINT JAM, a company in Osaka established in 2007.

In November 2018, “MAGICAL RISO 2018” was held under the cooperation of Van Eyck, a school of fine arts in the Netherlands and RISO Benelux.
The event is the third in this year. About 150 people including publishers, designers, artists and users of RISOGRAPHS gathered in the event from all over the world.
And lectures and seminars were held to display art works printed by RISOGRAPHS and discuss features of RISOGRAPHS.

RISO interviewed an artist Kazuma Ogata who uses RISOGRAPH to print his artworks in the shop/gallery displays his artworks and RISOGRAPH for artistic use.

RISO interviewed Nana Inoue, the author / illustrator of children's picture book. Her book "The Process of Becoming a Little Bear" printed on the RISOGRAPH won the Silver Medal for "Best Book Design From All Over the World 2018".

FabCafe ran an event showcasing the world of the popular manga series "Space Brothers" in April 2018. Using the digital screen maker GOCCOPRO, they also held a workshop for printing Space Brothers artwork on tote bags.