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SOBUE Shin

1959–

Profile

  • Name

    祖父江 慎 そぶえ しん SOBUE Shin

  • Company Name

    コズフィッシュ cozfish

  • Job Title

    Graphic Designer

  • Birth

    1959

  • Area

    Tokyo

  • Profile

    Born in Aichi Prefecture. Graduated from the Art Department of Aichi Asahigaoka Prefectural high School, albeit unmotivated. While he was in the Graphic Design Department of Tama Art University, he started to work at the Kosakusha publishing house and dropped out of university. after he worked as an art director for Kosakusha and For Sale, he went freelance in 1988. Realizing in 1990 that his studio did not have a name, he named it "cozfish." By then he had dealt with more than a thousand book designs. At present, capitalizing on his "extraordinary power to enchant" every kind of printed matter, he is active across a broad range of projects.

    Source: "2005 GRAPHIC DESIGN ANNUAL DNP　ginza graphic gallery・ddd gallery"

    Director of cozfish. Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1959. While a student at Tama Art University, Sobue started working part-time at Kousakusha in 1981, having been inspired by Kohei Sugiura; he subsequently left the university. As a student he was a member of the university manga club along with older students Kotobuki Shiriagari and Masahiko Kikuni. Sobue left Kousakusha in 1987. After working as art director at For Sale Corporation, which was founded by Yasushi Akimoto, he became independent in 1988 and founded cozfish in 1990. He has created book bindings and designs in various genres including the humanities, novels and manga. He has received attention for unconventional book designs--a notable example being a manga book by Sensha Yoshida--with elements such as intentionally out-of-order pages and diagonal cutting. In recent years Sobue has also worked on the graphics and art direction of numerous exhibitions, including "Snoopy/Ever and Never: the art of Peanuts," "Evangelion Exhibition," "GeGeGe no Kitaro," and "Go Go Miffy/55 Years with Miffy"; and created unique exhibition-related goods bursting with distinctive flair.

    Source: ggg HP Exhibition Archive "Shin Sobue + cozfish: Book Desig" (2016)

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