Contemporary Trends in Kanji Typography: Three Perspectives

Speakers

Akira Kataoka

Kataoka Akira, born in 1947, is the representative director of Kinuta Font Factory. His published typefaces include Marumin Old (2000), Iroha Gothic (2005), Marumaru Gothic (2008), Donguri (2011), Yuji-3 (2011), Yamamoto-An (2013), Shin (2014), Kinuta Minchotai L (2017) , and Kana Reiwa (2019). He is a member of the Japan Typography Association, and the author of the book Mojihon.

Yoshimaru Takahashi

Takahashi Yoshimaru explores visual communication with human warmth, pivoting on typography, in everything from branding to book design. He is the author of The Pleasure of Typography (Pie International), Fuzzy Communication (Museum of Arts & Crafts, Hamburg), and Takahashi Yoshimaru’s Design World (China Kwangsi Art Publisher), among others.In addition, Takahashi is a professor at Osaka University of Arts, the principal of Kokokumaru Inc, and chairman of the board of the Japan Typography Association.

Tsuyokatsu Kudo

Kudo Tsuyokatsu is a graphic designer who graduated from the living design course at Kuwasawa Design School in 1973. After lecturing in visual communication at Musashino Art University, he became a professor at the Tokyo Metropolitan University Graduate School of System Design in 2006, and guest professor from 2013–14. Tsuyokatsu’s ooks include Textbook for Editorial Design (4th edition), Analysis of Work & Essentials of Design, and Lecture on Typographic Design Method.