Announcement for Intermedia Arts Festival, Nikkei Hall, Japan, January 18, 19, & 21, 1969

Kōhei Sugiura is a Japanese graphic designer and typographer born in 1932 whose practice emerged in the postwar period. Working primarily in print design, he developed a distinctive approach to the relationship between image and text, informed by traditional Japanese aesthetics and modernist compositional principles. This profile will be expanded as more verified source material becomes available.