• Name

  鳥海 修 とりのうみ おさむ TORINOUMI Osamu

• Company Name

  有限会社字游工房 じゆうこうぼう JIYUKOBO Ltd.

• Job Title

  Type Designer

• Birth

  1955

• Area

  Tokyo

• Profile

  Born in Yamagata Prefecture in 1955. Grew up at the foot of Mount Chokai. Type designer. After graduating from Tama Art University, he joined Shaken Co., Ltd. in 1979, and in 1989, he founded JIYUKOBO Ltd. with Tsutomu Suzuki and Keiichi Katada, and was its president from 1998 to 2019. He was commissioned to produce such works as the Hiragino series and Koburina Gothic for SCREEN Graphic Solutions. At the same time, he has been involved in the development of more than 100 basic typefaces for his own brand, such as Yu Mincho and Yu Gothic for the Yu Typeface Library. He received the first Keinosuke Sato Award in 2002, the GOOD DESIGN AWARD in 2005, and the Tokyo TDC Type Design Prize in 2008. From 2007 to 2017, he taught and supervised type design at Kyoto Seika University. Currently, he is the president of the private school Mojijuku, and an adjunct lecturer at Musashino Art University.

  Source: ddd HP Exhibition Archive "Osamu Torinoumi Making Type"

• Links

  http://www.jiyu-kobo.co.jp/

  https://www.mojijuku.jp/

Activities at ddd

Approximately 67 years old (2022)
Participated in Osamu Torinoumi Making Type: Like Water, Like Air as Featured Designer, and Exhibition Commentary Participants.

Approximately 62 years old (2017)
Participated in Kouga Hirano and Shobunsha as undefined Tour Guide.

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