I have spent much of my life in Tokyo and London. I have studied higher mathematics and chemistry at university level, as well as having a degree in English literature and advertising, and I have also formally studied Zen art in Japan. My professional goal has been to achieve striking, leading-edge visual effects which are nevertheless a practical proposition for commercial online media.

In the past decade I have worked for many major corporations in the interactive media industries, originally in Japan and then in the UK. During the last ten years, when I have been based in London, these have included: Sony UK (1997-1999), Sega Europe and DreamCast's online portal, DreamArena (2000), NEC / Packard Bell (2000-2003), DoCoMo Europe (part of NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese mobile multimedia company) - as a web producer (2003) to produce the 1st Pan-European site (archived - no longer online) in conjunction with Futura Interactive and Weber Shandwick | Square Mile and so on. I have also worked for freelance-based projects for a number of service sectors and industries as a digital designer/artworker (List of projects). At present I work for Design & Usability Team at Orange.

I am very interested in trends in urban sub-cultures not least, street fashions and evolving art forms - and these have formed part of the inspiration for my graphic work. I have studied academically the pictorial art associated with Zen Buddhism, and also have a particular interest in radical European art movements of the early twentieth century, such as Expressionism, Cubism and Futurism. But more broadly, I believe in the universal and eternal aesthetic qualities that are to be found in the cultures of both East and West, historical and contemporary.

I live in west London, and as well as creating illustrations I enjoy playing the piano and practising Shaolin Kung Fu.

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