User:Taro Yamamoto

Taro Yamamoto received a BFA from Musashino Art University in 1983, where he studied the history and art of typography. After a stint doing type development with Morisawa, he joined Adobe in 1992 as Manager of Japanese Typography. In addition to management and engineering tasks, he led the design team that produced Adobe’s original Japanese typefaces, including Kozuka Mincho and Kozuka Gothic, under the artistic direction of Masahiko Kozuka. He has also written a book on design (“Representation or Expression: a Dialogue on Design”) and an article on P.S. Fournier that appeared in “An Encyclopaedic Collection of Typefaces.” Yamamoto is also the ATypI country delegate for Japan. He is also President of the Society of Typography, Japan formed in August 2005. In 2008, he was awarded the 1st Motogi Shozo Prize by the Society of Typography, for his paper on the standardization of type body sizes. In 2020, he translated Robin Kinross’s book, “Modern Typography” into Japanese, which was published by Graphic-sha Publishing.

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