BOOKS
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2015
in Japanese, English and French (Published by Kyuryudo, Tokyo)
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A publisher (Akari-Lisa Ishii) as director of I.C.O.N. for 10 years. Seven chapters to discover her various projects through a graphic work and explanatory texts full of personal words on her own experiences. You will discover extraordinary projects, sometimes fun, sometimes difficult... but always with a lot of enthousiasm of the creator. Akari-Lisa Ishii publishes a book that shares her vision of light and design “drawing with light brushes on the black canvas of darkness.” Through the discovery of her works, she hopes to convey to readers the beauty, importance and interest of light.
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2005
“City and Light –Enlightened Paris”
in Japanese (Published by Suiyosha, Tokyo) |
Based on her master these,this is the result of Akari-Lisa Ishii's 10 years of research on how physical urban lighting design has been representing the philosophy of the each era in the histoty of "the city ligth". More than 200 historical images illustrate the text.
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2004
in Japanese (Published by Kodansha, Tokyo) |
Akari Lisa Ishii’s first essai based on her experiences as a young lighting designer in France and international carrier, zooming on her participation to Notre Dame lighting-up project and her life in Paris.
ARTICLES
Since 2016
Essay series on web magazine « Design Stories », by Mr Hitonari Tsuji, in Japanese
The international writer Jinsei Tsuji launched his webmagazine Design Stories in October 2016. His writings develop different subjects around design in the broad sense, a concept of life. As conscientious chief-editor, he invited several specialists from different fields to contribute to this site, to complete his work. Among them, Akari-Lisa Ishii, to write her vision of the world and light. She shares her creative concepts, feelings and motivations within her design works. On the launching day, the site already got tens of thousands of views.
2010
Monthly article series FUTURE OF LIGHTS on design magazine "Nikkei Design"
2009
Monthly article series LIGHT IN LIFESTYLE on women's magazine "25 ans"
Over the years,
Many articles for books, magazines, newspapers, web etc. in the field of architecture and lighting but also for national and general daily newspapers, cultural media etc.
Some examples: column on Notre-Dame de Paris for Asahi Shimbun, reports on Milan's Salone for LUX, essay about the resonance between light and sound for NHK Symphony, analysis of a Roland Barthes' book published in several Japanese newspapers, opinions about lighting design for different publications etc.