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Eiko Ishioka

1938 - 2012

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Eiko Ishioka (石岡 瑛子, Ishioka Eiko, July 12, 1938 – January 21, 2012) was a Japanese art director, costume designer, and graphic designer known for her work in stage, screen, advertising, and print media. Noted for her advertising campaigns for the Japanese boutique chain Parco, she collaborated with sportswear company Descente in designing uniforms and outerwear for members of the Swiss, Canadian, Japanese, and Spanish teams at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and was the director of costume design for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eiko Ishioka has received more than 731,624 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Eiko Ishioka is the 49th most popular designer, the 845th most popular biography from Japan (down from 775th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Designer.

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  • 730k

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  • 53.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Eiko Ishioka ranks 49 out of 104. Before her are Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., Betsy Ross, Otl Aicher, Luigi Colani, Margarete Steiff, and John Baskerville. After her are Syd Mead, Milton Glaser, Laura Biagiotti, Georg Jensen, Louis Majorelle, and Paul Rand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Eiko Ishioka ranks 217. Before her are Jim Simons, Larry Niven, Richard Beymer, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, Lawrence Block, and Grethe Ingmann. After her are Venedikt Yerofeyev, Michel Duchaussoy, Behrouz Vossoughi, McCoy Tyner, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, and Michael Löwy. Among people deceased in 2012, Eiko Ishioka ranks 149. Before her are Josef Škvorecký, Blagoje Adžić, Alexis Weissenberg, Maurice Sendak, Jiří Raška, and Dawoud Rajiha. After her are Sage Stallone, Ivica Horvat, Eve Arnold, Han Suyin, William Thurston, and Michel Duchaussoy.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Eiko Ishioka ranks 845 out of 6,245. Before her are Ango Sakaguchi (1906), Mitsuo Tsukahara (1947), Inoue Kaoru (1836), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Seiichi Sakiya (1950), and Kanji Ishiwara (1889). After her are Takeshi Natori (null), Yūko Tsushima (1947), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Akihiro Miwa (1935), Shiro Teshima (1907), and Tsuda Umeko (1864).

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Among DESIGNERS In Japan

Among designers born in Japan, Eiko Ishioka ranks 1. After her are Yuko Shimizu (1946), Fumito Ueda (1970), Yusaku Maezawa (1975), and Nicola Formichetti (1977).

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