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Katsumi Komagata (1953) is a graphic designer born in Japan in the Shizuoka region. After having been the assistant to the poster designer Kazumasa Nagaï, he left to work in the United States for CBS in New York from 1977. In 1981, he won the silver medal from the New York Art Directors Club. In 1983, Katsumi Komagata returned to Japan and worked on visual identity and in fashion, for Comme des Garçons, Zucca, and artistic director for the photo magazine Deja Vu.
In 1986 he founded his own graphic design studio, One Strok], which would also become his publishing house.
Following the birth of her daughter Aï in 1989, Komagata designed her first children's books.
In 1992, he exhibited his books for the first time at the Niigata museum, then the complete series in Osaka in 1993, and in France in Villeurbanne in 1994 then toured in Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, New Caledonia, Reunion Island, Korea, France and Japan.
Since 1993, he has been an active member of the Tokyo City Council for Environmental Improvement for Children.
In 2003-2004, he collaborated with the association Les Doigts qui rêve, les Trois Ourses and the Center Pompidou, and designed books for visually impaired children.
In 2005-2006, he designed the interior design and signage for the pediatric departmen
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Katsumi Komagata’s ‘Book of Books’, an essential work by the author published in 2013 by Les Trois Ourses, now appears for the first time in a bilingual Italian and English version, in a revamped and updated edition. Komagata needs no introduction: it suffices to mention the two instances with which he revolutionised children’s publishing. Starting from an interweaving of his life with his young daughter Aï and the plastic experiments that characterised his training, Komagata manages to forge a new artistic sensibility through the extreme simplification of shapes and colours.
In his books, the author accounts for the infant’s point of view on the world and, following his growth processes, he follows the development of his perception, realising a true study that is not only pedagogical but also anthropological. Moreover, his way of understanding children’s publishing is revolutionary in that the volumes themselves are true design objects: pop-up techniques, the Japanese art of origami or the tangram are just some of the many examples with which the author recovers the material value of any book, in a rich encounter of colours, shapes and sensory stimuli. In doing so, the sensitivity that transpires from his books cannot but broaden the audience,