is a Japanese graphic designer born in Tokyo. He graduated in 1979 from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (currently

Tokyo University of the Arts or is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter ...

) in the Department of Design. He completed his master's degree in 1981. In 1984 founded Taku Satoh Design Office after working at Dentsu Inc. His work in graphic design includes "Pleats Please Issey Miyake" and the logos of the

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa The is a museum of contemporary art located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. The museum was designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architectural office SANAA in 2004. In October 2005, one year after its openin ...

and the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. Along with

Issey Miyake was a Japanese fashion designer. He was known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances, such as '' L'eau d'Issey'', which became his best-known product. Early life and education Miyake was born on 22 April 1938 i ...

Naoto Fukasawa Naoto Fukasawa (; born 1956) is a Japanese designer, author, and educator, working in the fields of Product design, product and furniture design. He is known for his product design work with the Japanese retail company Muji, as well as collaborat ...

and Noriko Kawakami, he is director of

21 21 Design Sight 21_21 Design Sight is a museum in Roppongi in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, which opened in 2007. The museum, a design museum, was created by architect Tadao Ando and fashion designer Issey Miyake. "The idea was to create not only a museum that shows e ...

in Tokyo, where he curated their second exhibition, "Water," in 2007, and "Design Ah!" in 2013. In 2014, he directed the exhibition "Kome: The Art Of Rice" with anthropologist Shinichi Takemura. In 2016, Satoh directed the exhibition "Design Anatomy, a method for seeing the world through familiar objects" at

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Taku Satoh Design Office
{{DEFAULTSORT:Satoh, Taku Japanese graphic designers 1955 births Living people