Archiving—the act of preparing the past for future use through the organization of material and works collected and stored carefully—has been spearheaded throughout Japan mainly by art museums, museums, and university libraries. There has been a growing interest in archiving in the areas of culture and art. This has accompanied the wave of digitization and emergence of media art seen since the early 2000s, and has led to the launch of businesses and organizations dealing in archival digitization, spurring deliberation on better ways to build and make use of enhanced creative databases..

IDEA is a quarterly magazine on graphic design and typography published in Japan.