Teaching Staff (Communication Design)

Title	Professor
Research Fields	Art direction / Advertising / Photography
Education	1983 Graduated (Visual Communication Design), Tokyo University of the Arts 1980 Bachelor’s (Engineering Mathematics), Keio University
Selected Professional Experience	2017-Present Professor, Akita University of Art 1983-2017 Dentsu Inc.
Recent Activities	<Selected solo exhibitions> 2018 Arara, konna tokoro ni [What’s This Doing Here?]. Fujifilm Photo Salon, Tokyo 2015 Kakuretenaide, detekinasai [Quit Hiding, Get Out Here!]. Epson epSITE Gallery, Tokyo tsukumo-gami. Ricoh Imaging Square, Tokyo   <Selected awards / prizes> Tokyo Art Directors Club Award Bronze Lion, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Silver Medal, Clio Awards Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of New York Annual Awards Silver Medal, Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA) Global Design Awards Grand Prize, Mainichi Advertisement Design Competition Silver Medal, Japan Magazine Advertising Awards   <Co-authored books> 2007 Shin-ato direkuta nyumon [New Fundamentals of Art Direction] (as member of ‘Dentsu Design Tank’). Dentsu 2003 Visualization (with YUTANI Katsumi, OISHI Emiko, et al.). Dentsu
Courses Taught	Contemporary Art Theory 1, 2 Contemporary Art Seminar (Communication Design) Photographic Techniques Communication Design & Direction Communication Design Lecture B Communication Design Seminar B 1, 2, 3 Graduation Project (Communication Design)

 

Example Works
Another face	The power of globalization	Memento mori

Further details (in Japanese) can be found at the following link: SAKAGUCHI Shotaro (Japanese page)