Designers in Seoul
Designers in Tokyo
Designers in Taipei
Column Four
Graphic designer. Director of Allright-Inc.
Graduated from Kuwasawa Design School.
Established "Allright Graphics" with Takada Nobukuni and Takada Mai in 2006.
Professor at Tokyo Zokei University.
All important.
Received the
2011 JAGDA New Design Award,
2015 Kuwasawa Award,
2015 JAPAN PACKAGE DESIGN AWARDS,
2019 Tokyo ADC Award,
2020 Tokyo TDC Award
Though this is about illustration, I think there is a tendency to prefer narrative and explanatory elements over visual (graphical ) interest. (But maybe things have changed a bit recently?)
The typsetting is unique. The ability to use hiragana, katakana, kanji, and alphanumeric characters in both vertical and horizontal writing is, we feel, unique in Japanese design culture.
Many people think we Germans are perfect. What nonsense!
While the most known and celebrated inspirations from the Polish graphic design history is the 1950-80s Polish School of Posters, there is also a less known history of great logo design and typography, which we only started discovering recently. Nowadays Poland has amazing and internationally renowned designers in different fields - illustration, branding, typography and more. The community of professionals - individual designers and studios - is strong and friendly, we learn from each other and give each other advice, but also consciously build market standards together.