Courtesy of Japanese Design Archive Interview: November 8, 2016.

Mitsuo Katsui

Mitsuo Katsui (勝井三雄, 1931–2019) was a Japanese graphic designer. Born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, he studied composition at Tokyo University of Education, worked at Ajinomoto from 1956 and opened his own office in 1961. He was art director for Expo '70, the Okinawa Ocean Expo and Tsukuba Expo '85, and made light, colour gradation and geometry the core of a practice that ran from posters and books to the DIC Color Guide (1990); he co-authored the CG volume of the survey 現代グラフィックデザイン大系. He taught at Tokyo Zokei University and Musashino Art University, was president of the Japan Graphic Designers Association 2009–12, and received the Kamekura Yusaku Prize (2005).

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