Soap Bubbles Floated, They Floated Into Outer Space
Koichi Sato
Japanese, born 1944
1989
A lithograph poster by Koichi Sato that imagines a child's soap bubble touch as a hand‑shaped portal into the cosmos, merging playful imagery with a maplike starfield to provoke wonder.
You are struck by a huge cyan halo in the exact shape of a hand whose black interior reads like a star chart—scattered white points, pink targets, and faint diagram lines making the organic silhouette feel clinical and celestial at once.
Produced in the late 1980s, this poster exemplifies a moment in Japanese graphic design when photomechanical color, pop aesthetics, and scientific motifs were combined to turn commercial posters into poetic, imaginative objects.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
40 1/2 x 28 3/4" (102.9 x 73 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the designer
Accession
624.1990
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