My expertise could be categorized
into 4 areas:
digital printing artist, commercial printing designer, researcher and educator.
Not only with the background of a master degree in fine art, I am also specialized
in modern arts on the development of abstract digital illustration integrated
with color perception and personal expression. I have been a freelance of computer
graphic designer, digital illustrator and commercial/industrial product printing
designer since 1995. Since 1991, I worked with several famous digital printing
companies to conduct pilot researches on advancing printing technology. From
1996 to 2003, I had been lecturing in different universities and internationally
well-known companies. I also had the honor to judge 3 national digital printing
contests in Japan.
My artistic experience:
As a digital artist, I have won many prizes in both national and international.
Like PIXCEL CG, IMAGIN TOKYO, Japan Graphic, OMNI Art, and FISEA/SCCA. The most
internationally well-known prize I won was the Second International Infographic
Paris Art3000, ISEA (France). It was the biggest annual international computer
graphics award and exhibition in Paris. In this 2nd International Infographic
Paris, 80 artists were selected from all over the world and 3 of them were Japanese.
One of my large digital print art work, BillGates(3000 mmX2400 mm) is selected
and donated as a permanently collected by The National Museum Of Women In The
Arts (NMWA), Washington D.C. Beacause of his face of picture, another copy of
this art work was given to Mr. Bill Gates (Microsoft) as a gift. A high school
in Japan also has 6 of my large-sized art works, NetWorks(3000 mmX7200 mm)as
permanent collections. Two of my art works were elected and demonstrated by
JSA (Japanese Standards Association) as a standard sample of graphic technology
of Pre-press for other science technology researchers in computer Graphic field
of high resolution digital data exchange and standard color image data. The
datas have been shown at the international science council by an academic society
of WG1-SWG1.
As a commercial printing designer, I have designed for over 250 book covers
(including textbooks and magazines) and all models of ski board of Spalding
in '94 season and Erbacher in '95 season. I am very proud that I had the honor
to design the strap of Personal Handy Phone System (NTT) (like a watch) for
Nagano Winter Olympic Games 1998 (NAOC, Tokyo). There were about 500 straps
and each one is independent unique design of its printing. The TV news of BBC
had a report on this product.As a lecturer of multimedia system, I taught over
600 people including university students and big company's executive directors.
Some of them won international prizes as excellent students.I was selected one
of the ten artists in Japan by NEC to publish my personal CD-ROM album. I was
also selected one of famous computer grapfic artist catalogue in Japan by publisher
of "ComputerGraphics Anthology 89"(10 LatherDiscs with book, Bunkensha
Publishing)through Digita limage Org. Some of my work were selected international
digital Artist catalogue by publisher and editors.