the universe, man, nature, life—everything blends and reverberates. “light” has always been a perpetual theme for me. man and light are very closely tied. light is translated into colors and things are seen through light. communication is born through light. Interactive techniques as opposed to computer graphics let one further from a flat format to a moving image. this will be looked to from now on as a way to convert dimensions. —mitsuo katsui
the universe, man, nature, life—everything blends and reverberates. “light” has always been a perpetual theme for me. man and light are very closely tied. light is translated into colors and things are seen through light. communication is born through light. Interactive techniques as opposed to computer graphics let one further from a flat format to a moving image. this will be looked to from now on as a way to convert dimensions. —mitsuo katsui
Pattern by marker printed on silkscreen, 1969.
Pattern by marker printed on silkscreen, 1969.
international recognition
Katsui received the Mainichi Industrial Design prize in 1965, and has gone on to win many more awards, including the Japan Advertising Artists Club award and gold prizes from graphic design biennales in Poland and Mexico. He is an emeritus professor at Musashino Art University, the director of the Japan Graphic Designers Association, a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and the New York Art Directors Club.
Visionary∞Scape poster, 2003.
Hana poster, 1993.
Love Station poster. © Museum of Design, Zurich.