Graphic Design

Danielle Jette

Danielle Jette is a Vancouver based graphic designer and illustrator. She studied at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in illustration. Since graduation she has completed a number of freelance contract projects with a variety of local organizations including Vancouver Opera, Translink, Dish […]

Stan Shikatani

Born 1928. Prince Rupert BC. Relocated to Toronto in 1946. Studied design, typography and painting. Honors Graduate. Ontario College of Art. Worked professionally for 10 years before accepting a teaching post at Sheridan College,School of Art and Design. Stan pioneered the graphic design curriculum in the field of design education at Sheridan and the level […]

Yurie Hoyoyon

Yurie is a multi talented girl in Vancouver; she is… An illustrator, graphic designer, portrait artist, greeting cards artist. Also a voice actress, MC, poetry event coordinator for the Vancouver based poet Soramaru Takayama, and a TV reporter of Nikkei TV. As an illustrator and a portrait artist, she has worldwide client base including North […]

Eugene Ouchi

Eugene Ouchi was a printmaker and graphic designer. Born in Vernon, British Columbia, he studied at the Alberta College of Art – later, he became a teacher there. He had a career in the graphic design industry spanning more than thirty years, working on book design as well as corporate and information design. Ouchi’s prints […]

Barb Miiko Gravlin

Barbara ‘Miiko’ Nishimura- Gravlin was born in Tashme, the largest of Japanese Canadian internment camps in B.C. At an early age, she became an abstract painter under mentors, Richard Gorman and Mashel Teitelbaum and Kazuo Nakamura. In 1965, she was the recipient of a Canada Council Travel grant in Painting for six months tenure studying […]

Laura Suzuki

Laura Suzuki is a graphic designer with a multidisciplinary background, including biological psychology, science writing, and print and web design. She co-founded the company Doodletronics with illustrator Peter Cook, which specializes in web communications and also produces books about science, nature, and the environment for children.

Yoichi Shimizu

Yoichi Shimizu is a Japanese-born graphic designer who worked primarily in Toronto. After graduating from Naniwa Art College in Osaka, Shimizu worked for a Japanese design company, Nippon Create Design Limited, for from 1974-1976. He then immigrated to Canada and worked for Gottschalk and Ash Limited in Montreal, later moving on to different design companies […]

Roy Onami

Roy Onami is a retired graphic designer and painter. Born in Vancouver, Onami, his mother, and siblings were forcibly removed from the coast in 1942 and sent to live in Sandon internment camp. Their family resettled in Montreal after the war, where Onami graduated from high school and got a job with Trans Canada Airlines […]

Sandy Usami

Award-winning designer for Bell Media, Sandy specializes in print-based graphics and has designed for a variety of Bell Media franchises including CTV, CTV News, Discovery, TSN and the Comedy Network. As the sole proprietor of Kagami Images, she art-directed, designed and executed work for the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, The Toronto Buddhist Church, the Momiji […]

Margaret Issenman

Margaret (Peggy) Issenman, graphic designer, was born in 1956 in Montreal to Arnold and Betty (nee Kobayashi) Issenman. She lived in Montreal until the age of 16. One year was spent in Edinburgh, Scotland to complete her high school education. In 1974, she began a program in graphic design and visual communication at the Nova […]

Yosh Inouye

Yosh Inouye is a photographer and graphic designer. He studied sociology, photography, and graphic design in Japan and came to Canada in 1968. He worked as an advertising photographer, operating his own studio. In the mid-1980s, he was invited to teach at Sheridan College of which he says, ‘I didn’t know I can teach until […]

Lotus Miyashita

Lotus Miyashita is an artist and graphic designer based in Vancouver. She graduated from Vancouver Community College and Emily Carr College of Art & Design. Her early design work includes The Bulletin/Geppo in the early 1990s, and the 1994 print directory “Japanese Canadians in the Arts” and she has also done design work for a […]

San Murata

ARTIST San Murata is an Ontario-based painter living in a historic small town near Toronto. Born in Japan, he graduated from the University of Musashi in Tokyo with a degree in Economics in 1964. In 1968, he travelled to Canada to ‘have a look around’, and liked it so much that he decided to stay. […]

Teruo Adachi

Teruo (Terry) Adachi was born in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Life took him to Tottori-ken, Japan (ages 6 to 10), Vancouver, B.C. (his teen years), Jackfish and Valetta, Ontario work/farm camps during the war and, finally, Toronto in 1942. He studied painting and drawing in Toronto at Central Tech and the Ontario College of Art […]

Annie Koyama

Annie Koyama is a publisher and founder of the Toronto-based Koyama Press. After working in graphic arts, set painting, and film, Koyama found herself in advertising making commercials. After a surviving a terminal diagnosis, she decided to dedicate her time and resources to supporting primarily emerging artists. In 2007, she published Koyama Press’s first book, […]