"Letters and typesetting, printing" exhibition held from October 14th (Mon/holiday) to October 22nd (Tuesday/holiday) hosted by Osaka DTP study room-Transition from analog to digital- On October 20th (Sun), Type Designers Fujita will participate in a talk session with designer Koichi Sakano and type essayist Kako Masaki.

Talk session outline (October 20th (Sunday) 13:00 reception start 14:00 start 18:30 end scheduled)

・Manufacturer, Shigenobu Fujita User, Koichi Sakano Reader, Kako Masaki

A rich dialogue between Type Designers Fujita and designer Sakano. Then, a typeface essayist for the reader, Masaki, will join the discussion.

Exhibition summary

Nowadays, DTP is the norm for producing printed materials, but until the 1970s, the work of analog designers (manual work) was performed by designers, typesetting operators, masters, and platemakers.
When microcomputers and personal computers were introduced in the 1980s, it was a system exclusively for Japanese language, which was developed based on the technology cultivated in the analog era, such as phototypesetting, blockmaking, and platemaking.
However, DTP (English localization), which came from the other side of the sea, was a different thing because there were few intersections with the Japanese dedicated system.
This time, I thought that knowing the past analog and Japanese dedicated system would be a hint to think about the future of digital and DTP, so I planned this exhibition.
This exhibition presents a dark river that separates the Japanese language system from DTP, and the content of the transition from analog to digital can be seen at a glance.
There is also an exhibition of the Morisawa MC-6 type, the Morisawa computer input calibrator, and the MK-110, which is a manual typesetting machine in which the gears rotate around in a rustling sound. Please feel it and experience the work done at the time.

Speaker information

Mr. Koichi Sakano
Graphic designer/Representative of welle design
Born in Hyogo prefecture. Graduated from the Department of Visual Information Design, Kobe University of Art and Design.
After working for Sony Corporation and Kohei Sugiura Plus Eyes, he became independent in 2003 and established welle design.
In charge of supervision and creation of all welle design design work.

Kyoko Masaki
Writer. Presided over the "character table". Central examination committee for lettering skill certification.
Born in Fukuoka in 1981. Graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Literature.
Fascinated by typefaces and typesetting fonts from an early age, he publishes various paper essays on the theme of "typefaces rich in taste."
In 2011, the website "Letter's Dining Table-Only one Fonts book in the world" was opened. A reading essay on letters and words serialized under the theme of "rich taste of typeface" has become a hot topic as a criticism of typeface with a reader's perspective that has never existed before, and "Exhibition of Character Table" will be held. Author of "Character table" (published by magazine magazine). "Introduction to typefaces for reading books" (published by Seikaisha), "Letters and paradise Seishosha modern literature literate in typefaces" (Book Magazine)

Shigenobu Fujita
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1957. Graduated from Chikuyo Gakuen High School Design Department.
Joined Shaken Character Design Department of Phototypesetting Machine Co., Ltd. in 1975.
Fontworks Inc. in 1998 and developed many typefaces including Tsukushi typeface.
In 2016, appeared on NHK "Professional Work Style".
Received the 2010 Tokyo TDC Award. Received the Tokyo TDC Award 2018 Type Design Award.
Twitter: @ Tsukushi55
"Professional work style"