a year passed

A year passed from graduation of my uni.
it was so quick to come here this point, i still cannot believe with everything i have done in London.
Did i really hand-in the long 7,000 words of writing? Did i really make everything for final projects in the tight schedule?
Did i? Did i? DId i???
Now Im back in calm, and look back to my london life. I still feel like i was in dream, london is my wonderland.
that four years student life was unforgettable term in my life. never never and never.
and now let me look at my current situation.
am i doing what i wanted? am i create enough? am i still growing up?
different things from before i can say are, yes i got fat, i eat a lot, i have got many spots on my face, forgetting how to speak English, doing design stuffs as a job and fighting with technology everyday, and i don't think things seriously much. mmm are they all positive meaning to me?
let's look back a year later and ask me same question again. What will i reply to this?

Typography and タイポグラフィ

I work in a web design studio in Tokyo now. I do graphic design there and just sadly realised how I am useless.
I did typo in uni but I don't know anything about its system even basic knowledge. Shameful!
Anyway. I just found out the difference between English typo and Japanese one.


Let's talk about English one for the first.
I see English typo as objects. I don't read the content of articles much, just reading head copies and I get small information.
So it is mush easy to arrange the layout than Japanese one.
The English alphabet has just 26 letters, and this small numbers have actually huge diversity and possibility.
The beautiful and perfect figure of alphabet is freedom. It changes its shape to anything.
The English alphabet is simple, therefore the meaning of the word--which is constructed by alphabet--would be the most important element in typography.


Next is Japanese typo.
Japanese letters are difficult to compose, I feel.
basically Japanese has three alphabets, 50 letters each in KATAKANA and HIRAGANA and also countless chinese characters...
Therefore it is almost impossible to make new font by ourselves and quite tiny numbers of fonts are installed in computer.
KATAKANA has very smooth shape but KATAKANA is solid. Chinese character is very complicated and chaos. Also It gives serious image to readers. So....three different alphabets are too much characteristic.
Personally I feel handwriting is the best for Japanese typo. Especially elderly people's. Their traditional writings are very beautiful and emotional. I think this is kind of the answer for Japanese typo as the emotional language.


Typography is mysterious. Old-fashion but modern and contemporary.
It has wide range of its history with traditional method, but still gives fresh air in the graphic design area.
Words gives imagination without visible images. It actually requires us to have imagination by ourselves.
So I love typo and never get bored!

she is the primitive source of my creativity

I remember, that the little kitty was always beside me when I was a kid. She came to me as a dress-up doll for my 5th birthday, I remember my mum bought a T-shirts of her, my dad bought a small doll house of her when my family went to a family restaurant, and and and...
As a little child, I quite liked her simple face and primal colours, and she still gives me countless inspiration for my work especially when I think about colour combination and my design tendency---I love simple design. The memories of my childhood link to current life of mine, and the radical originality had made up when I met her.
I thank for her, and will love her forever!

what is my designing style?

I have read through my blog and thought about my colour and tendency for designing...


*simple-line drawing, pictogram
*colourful but prefer to pick primal colours
*craft like, love handmade not only use computer work.
*story telling
*love to put hidden concepts behind works
*not really antique like much closer to modern?
*favourite fonts-century, century gothic, american typewriter


mmm will think about that deeply from now on.
However it's good to think these things for developing myself and potentiality.
Yes all humans are on the line of growth!