Shigeo Fukuda was born in Tokyo in 1932 and graduated from the Department of Design at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1956. He designed the official poster for Expo ’70 in Osaka and went on to become one of the most recognised Japanese designers outside Japan.
Fukuda worked with optical illusions, impossible objects and visual puns, using the simplest possible means to make a point. His 1975 poster Victory 1945, a shell flying back into the barrel of a gun, won the grand prize at the Warsaw International Poster Biennale, and much of his best known work speaks against war and for the environment.
He served as vice-chairman of the Japan Graphic Designers Association (JAGDA) and was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and the Royal Designers for Industry.
