The symbol mark of the Toyama City Glass Art Museum consists of three elements.
- The distinctive exterior of the building, designed by renowned architect Kengo Kuma.
- The image of laminated glass.
- A powerful wave moving toward the future, from here we will disseminate world-class glass art and create a new movement.
These elements combine to serve as a landmark while strongly expressing the distinctive character and directional orientation of a glass.
The color is inspired by the “Koshi-no-ao” color of the sea of Toyama Bay, also known as Aigame (indigo blue), where underground waters from the Tateyama mountain range.
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The logotype harmonizes with the symbol mark and expresses a light, modern aesthetic that aims for new glass art.
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The Kirari logo was created as a mark for the complex building that houses the Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama City Library, a bank, and more.
Vertical lattice has become a major motif of the building’s design, in such things as its façade and in the internal louvers, and the logo design has also been made to match this in its use of glass-like, rectangular panels. At a glance it gives one the impression of the transparency of glass and of the building’s image. The colors used are the jade green and blue that are produced at Toyama Glass Studio. The jade green expresses pleasure in harmony with nature and the calm of a cultural institution. The blue expresses a clear spirit like the blue of Toyama Bay, which is also called aigame after the earthenware pots used to store indigo dye.