Toho Paper Company logo designed by Yusaku Kamekura
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Yusaku Kamekura and his Mark Design by Masataka Ogawa

The background of Kamekura’s mark designs is his boldness in eliminating all the waste, combining simplification derived from Japanese traditional family crests and Western intellectual mechanics of formation with a sharp modern sense of composition.

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