B.LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME WEEKEND 2024 IN OKINAWA Participating Player Line Art Photo Spot | NOMURA x MQ

NOMURA Co., Ltd. has created a “Line Art Photo Spot for Participating Players” installed at the Okinawa Arena, the venue for “B.LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME WEEKEND 2024 IN OKINAWA,” which will be held for three days for the first time in B.LEAGUE history. I was in charge of planning, design, layout, interior execution. A collaboration between graphic designer MQ, who has been working mainly on illustrations of NBA (American Professional Basketball League) players since 2018, and NOMURA, this is a one-stroke drawing of 10 participating players selected by fan voting. The vibrant illustrations have been turned into life-sized line art monuments.

Together with the players, staff, and fans, we are breaking the mold of the B.LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME and expressing the world of "Kokoro, Tagiru."

Line art photo spot overview
Name: Participant line art photo spot | NOMURA x MQ
Number of production: 10 pieces in total
Material: T9 steel plate NC processing/painted finish
Player name:
B.BLACK Shin Hiejima (Utsunomiya Brex), Ryuichi Kishimoto (Ryukyu Golden Kings), Josh Hawkinson (Sunrockers Shibuya), Keita Imamura (Ryukyu Golden Kings), Yudai Nishida (Seahorse Mikawa)
B.WHITE Yuki Togashi (Chiba Jets), Yuki Kawamura (Yokohama B-Corsairs), Yudai Baba (Nagasaki Veruca),
Ren Kanechika (Chiba Jets), Perrin Buford (Shimane Susanoo Magic)

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Maaya Kinoshita / MQ
graphic designer. Graduated from the Department concept design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, and completed graduate school at the same university.In2018, he started workingunder the nameMQ, focusing on illustrations of NBA (American professional basketball league) players. As a certified NBAWashington Wizards super fan, at the NBA Japan Games 2022heldin September2022, we will be creating Wizards original goods and officialSNSgraphics, and holding a gallery displays in the hotel.Works on artwork for professional sports teams such asNBAcontent andB League. On the YouTubechannel "Basketball Diner", he broadcastsNBA news every week with Sohei Oshiba, publisher of the magazine "Dubdori", andReo Onishi, senior editor ofNBA Japan.