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WEBSITE: aki-air.com
COUNTRY: Japan
Akinori is an internationally acclaimed multimedia artist from Japan. He studied fine arts at Kyoto City University of Art, and later developed skills in multimedia at IAMAS (International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences / Japan). By his project of IAMAS, winning the New Talent Competition Award at MILIA (International Multi-media Fair in France) in 2001, he moved to France in order to continue his artistic career there. His work was featured in the opening exhibition of French contemporary art museum, Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He later served as a guest lecturer at ECAL (Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne / University of Art and Design Lausanne) in Switzerland. In 2004, Akinori returned to Japan to teach at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. Since his return, he has been active in the Japanese art scene, illustartions, and advertisements with Mitsubishi Electric, Uniqlo, Coca Cola Japan.
Akinori’s innocent-looking characters are always affable to us for both children and grownups. In 2011, Akinori became the first Japanese artist featured on the cover page of Open Sky magazine on board Emirates Airline. In addition, he also worked on the Jingle animation for Yo Gabba Gabba 2010, Nickelodeon (US), and has been a regular guest speaker at Pictoplasma conference New York and Berlin, as internationally recognized for character art and design. In 2011 he was selected one of the best character artists of Asia (CUTOUT Magaizne / Malaysia) 2011.
In these years he works also for China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Jury members of Hiii Illustration Competition 2016 (Nanjing), Art Toy Figures / FluffyHouse (Hong Kong) and Syntrend department store, Fubon Art Foundation (Taipei).
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