Atsuhiko Iwakoshi

Japanese media designer, born in Gifu and raised in Nagoya. While studying graphic design at Tama Art University around 1979 he built sound synthesisers from digital logic circuits, then encountered personal-computer graphics in 1980 and began making work. He placed second at the first ASCII microcomputer graphics forum in 1983 and took third prize at the first Nikkei CG Grand Prix, later working independently on GUI and icon design for hardware makers. He has taught graphic and media design at Tama Art University since 2001 and at Tokyo Gakugei University since 2002.