I'm thrilled to announce that I'm featured in the international design magazine IdN Vol. 28 No. 4.
Year: 2023
Logo design, stationery design, and creative direction for Smartypants Pictures. Smartypants is a film and commercial production company in Brooklyn, NY, founded by director Joshua Seftel.
The Smartypants Pictures branding project is featured on DesignRush.com.
Year: 2017
Category: Brand identity | Business collateral
Client: Smartypants Pictures
Logo design for a California-based conductor/pianist Benjamin Makino.
Year: 2023
Category: Logo design
Client: Benjamin Makino
Website image: www.benjaminmakino.com
Website, logo design, and business collateral for SEIZAN Gallery New York located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.
Year: 2018
Category: Logo | Website | Marketing
Client: SEIZAN Gallery New York
Gallery photos by GION, Courtesy of SEIZAN Gallery / Art Japan USA, Inc
Website development and logo design for Suzuki Ceramics based in New York.
Year: 2022
Category: Logo | Website
Client: Suzuki Ceramics
Yamato Indigo package redesign for the New York-based company, Curious Corners.
Year: 2021
Category: Package design
Client: Curious Corners
Illustration: Rosa Chang
A new collaboration with the Cape Town-based illustrator Katrin Coetzer: Animal alphabet poster with gold foil. Designed and printed in California.
Shop Alphabet Art Print.
The Animal Alphabet Poster is on display on the Art Wall at MUJI Tokyo Ariake.
Design: Kaori Drome
Illustration: Katrin Coetzer
Dimensions: H 28" W 20 / H 71cm W 51cm
Technique: Offset printed + gold foil
Paper: Mohawk Superfine Ultrawhite 80C / 216gsm
Top photo by Takatoshi Narita (Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd.)
Other photos by Lena Corwin
Logo and brochure design for Push Patch.
Year: 2023
Category: Logo | Business collateral
Client: Push Patch
Logo and business card design for FARM SHOP PRACTICE - Hand Thrown Pottery. FSP is based in both California and Massachusetts.
Year: 2017
Category: Logo | Business collateral
Client: Farm Shop Practice
Logo, website, and business card design for a UK-based dog walker, Sophie Woodberry.
Year: 2023
Category: Logo | Business collateral | Website
Client: Berry and Bark
Rebranding project for an Athens, GA-based design studio willaby established in 2014 that makes timeless, sustainable children’s and home goods.
Year: 2019 - 2020
Category: Brand identity | Business collateral
Client: willaby
Website development for MONKEY: New Writing from Japan. MONKEY is the English-language offspring of the Tokyo-based Japanese literary journal MONKEY, founded by Motoyuki Shibata, one of Japan’s most acclaimed translators of American fiction. Selections are made by Shibata in consultation with Ted Goossen, one of the leading translators of Japanese fiction, and Meg Taylor, the managing editor.
Year: 2020
Category: Website
Client: MONKEY: New Writing from Japan
Logo design, eCommerce website and creative direction for Anzu New York. Anzu is an online boutique based in Brooklyn, New York, offering a hand-picked selection of quality designed, time-honored items that are hand-crafted in Japan.
Year: 2013 - 2018
Category: Brand identity | Website | Business collateral
Client: Anzu New York
The websites that I created on Squarespace, Cargo Collective, Shopify, and Dunked:
• Kaori Drome Graphic Design
• Tamiyo Hasegawa (Interior Designer)
• Seizan Gallery New York (Art Gallery)
• Anzu New York (Online store)
• Asako Ueno (Writer, branding consultant, curator)
Logotype and business card design for a New Jersey based landscape designer Suzanne Nutt.
Year: 2018
Category: Logo | Business collateral
Client: Suzanne Nutt Landscapes
Printer: Hoban Press
Website and business card design for Harumi Ori. Harumi is a New York based artist/illustrator. For her business card, we used a translucent plastic to evoke the same feeling of floating as she has with her sculptures.
Year: 2018
Category: Website | Business collateral
Client: Harumi Ori
Logo design for Innochi Glass, an eyewear maker in Hyogo, Japan.
Year: 2021
Category: Logo design
Client: Innochi Glass
Logo design for Chicago/Washington D.C-based DJ KevinTaek.
Year: 2022
Category: Logo design
Client: DJ KevinTaek
Logo design for Just One Cookbook, a Japanese food blog with 1000+ authentic home-style recipes.
Year: 2022
Category: Logo design
Client: Just One Cookbook
Redesigned the logo and the whole packaging system for Aedan Fermented Foods. Aedan is a San Francisco-based company, which offers a variety of koji and miso products for Japanese-inspired cooking.
Year: 2017
Category: Logo refinement | Packaging design
Client: AEDAN Fermented Foods
Logo design for SAVE the Ocean Apparel Company. Their products are made with recycled water bottles. The plastic bottles are chopped, ground, washed, melted, and reformulated into high-quality chips. The chips are melted into a liquid polymer and created into filaments that form a fiber. The fiber then is spun into yarns and woven into fabrics. What an incredible technology.
Year: 2019
Category: Logo design
Client: SAVE the Ocean Apparel Company
Letterpress and foil business card, and the menu design for COOK St. Paul. COOK is a restaurant located in St. Paul, Minnesota, serving American-style dinner, breakfast and lunch.
Year: 2014
Category: Business collateral
Client: COOK St. Paul
Logo design for a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu academy, Daruma Dojo, in San Francisco Bay Area.
Year: 2019
Category: Logo design
Client: Daruma Dojo Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Package and logo design for seven skin care products, with an in-store display. This was a project to showcase a new line of products for a brand that is currently unknown in the skin care industry.
Year: 2016
Category: Brand identity | Packaging design
Academy of Art University design project
Rebranding for YUI BASICS. The collateral includes a brand logo, stickers, hang tags, thank you cards, and apparel labels. YUI BASICS, based in New York, offers beautiful handmade linen goods.
Year: 2016
Category: Brand identity | Business collateral
Client: YUI BASICS
Photography: Madelene Farin
Logo and package design for La Granda Familio. LGF is a family-owned business in Japan that specializes in organic granola made with carefully chosen ingredients.
Year: 2015
Category: Brand identity | Packaging design
Client: La Granda Familo
Last two photos by La Granda Familo
Created three books about iconic typographers old and new. The project was meant to reinforce and foster deeper understanding of typographic context and history. Each book was personally hand-bound.
Year: 2007
Category: Book design | Editorial design
Academy of Art University design project
I designed a 10th-anniversary tote bag for a Cupertino-based daycare, Tsukushi Daycare, which my son used to attend.
Year: 2019
Category: Promotion
Client: Tsukushi Daycare
A portfolio book and stationery system. Graduation project for Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Year: 2018
Category: Book design | Editorial design
AAU graduation work
Printer: Blurb