early years
After college, Katsui took postgraduate courses in design and photography. His skills advanced quickly, earning him exhibitions in Tokyo art galleries and jobs with commercial clients, such as Ajinomoto, a major food corporation. Katsui then convinced a large printing company to allow him to experiment with a new printing press that produced micron lines on banknotes. After two years of trial and error Katsui created an animated movie with the aid of the machine.
Pleats Please poster for Issey Miyake, 1997.
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.