Born 1970 in Nara Prefecture. Web designer, interface designer, and film director. Graduate of the Tokyo University’s engineering department. Associate professor at Tama Art University. Began working in web and interface design in 1998. Established design studio “tha ltd.” in 2004. Has since crossed over into art direction, design, and programming for many websites and videos.

Born in Tokyo in 1969 and began his career in the music industry. He entered CBS/Sony Group, Inc. (currently Sony Music Entertainment Inc.). In 1991, Hishikawa moved to NY and made the transition from music to the film industry. After returning to Japan, Hishikawa gained experience as a freelance set director, cinematographer, and theatre director before establishing DRAWING AND MANUAL, a company that merges graphic design and film as its creative base. He achieved the triple crown in 2011 after taking top honors in the Cannes Lions for directing the NTT DOCOMO commercial “Xylophone.”

Graduate of TUAD’s engineering course. Art director of WOW. Works on presentations that mix programming and CG, as well as all aspects of visual design from commercial video to software development in various fields. In recent years, has created art installations and displayed work at galleries like the V&A Museum (UK) and the Maison & Objet (France). Operator of the website “Futurismo Zugakousaku”. Author of Quartz Composer Book.

Founded in 2003. The team consists 3 parts : Design (Ryoji Tanaka/Hiroshi Sato/Emiko Kashiwagi), Device (Toshiyuki Sugai) and Program (Yusuke Shibata/Shunya Hagiwara). Semitra has awarded many prizes such as Spikes Asia, London International Awards, Cannes Lions, NY ADC, D&AD, Clio etc.

Founded in 1994, H5 is a graphic design studio based in Paris. Their noted break in the music industry (sleeve art and video clips) quickly opened the gates to cultural institutions (museums and exhibitions) and luxury brands. In 2009, H5 was rewarded with an Oscar for its short on logotypes: Logorama.

Born in May 1968. Graduated from École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs（ENSAD） in 1992. Co-founder and artistic director of the creative workshop Incandescence in 2000. Co-founder and artistic director of publishing volume in 2009. Member of the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).

Born in Tokyo in 1977. Represents artless Inc. Kawakami has been actively involved in a wide array of creative endeavors including art, design, branding, interactive, video, product, installation, and space production. In 2010, he won the Gold Award at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival for the work he produced for a TV channel in Finland (ch4). Kawakami has been energetically involved in sponsoring exhibitions and projects in Japan and overseas as well as curation while also submitting his art works to different media.

Born in Osaka in 1970, Masayoshi Kodaira is the principal of FLAME Inc., a graphic design studio based in Tokyo. Kodaira has designed posters and books for the exhibition of Yoshitomo Nara, LOUIS VUITTON, ART FAIR TOKYO, etc. Most recently, he has collaborated with ISSEY MIYAKE to create a line of bags and designed graphics for UIA2011 TOKYO: The 24th World Congress of Architecture. Also directed advertisings and commercial films for Laforet Harajuku(a major fashion department store in Tokyo). Awards include D&AD Silver, THE ONE SHOW Silver and Tokyo Art Directors Club ADC award.

Tokyo-based graphic designer. Acclaimed for revolutionary design work in magazines like +81 and SAL magazine during the late 90s. Launched the solo project “NEWLINE” in 2004 and began focusing on independent work. Has done graphics and visual production for shu uemura, agnès b, and Louis Vuitton in recent years.

Alexandre Dimos is a French graphic designer and editor born in 1978. In 2001 he established in Paris, with his partner Gaël Étienne, the studio deValence. Since ten years, they mainly work for artists, museums, art centers and galleries designing books, book collections, graphic identities and websites. In 2008 he created a publishing house called B42. In 2012 he is part of the French residency programm Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto.

Launched in 1989 when Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak met at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in France. After doing art direction for various magazines and other projects, the duo began working with artistic director Marc Ascoli on catalogs for the likes of Jil Sander and Yohji Yamamoto in 1994 and became the official art directors for Björk in 1999. With many brilliant accomplishments in the fields of fashion, music, and modern art, M/M have become one of the most well-known graphic design and artistic director teams to come out of France.