Masayoshi Kodaira

Born in Osaka in 1970, Masayoshi Kodaira is the principal of FLAME Inc., a graphic design studio based in Tokyo. Clients include Yokohama Museum of Art, ART FAIR TOKYO, ‘Esquire Magazine’ Japan, LOUIS VUITTON. Masayoshi has designed posters and books for the exhibition of Yoshitomo Nara, ARCHIGRAM, etc. Most recently, he has collaborated with PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE to create a line of bags. Awards include D&AD Silver (Fukutake House), ONE SHOW Silver, The Art Directors Club Distinctive Merits(NY), The Type Directors Club(NY), Japan Graphic Designers Association, and Tokyo Art Directors Club. “Masayoshi Kodaira’s ‘Fukutake House’ project harmonizes typography and architecture with a feeling for space, scale, material, and form ... is inventive, gracefully restrained, and packed with purpose and meaning.”