014: Ray Masaki / Japan / Observing social idiosyncrasies through design

BIO: Ray Masaki is a Japanese-American graphic designer from New York, living and working in Tokyo since 2017. He studied illustration at Parsons School of Design, type design at The Cooper Union, and is currently pursuing an MFA in graphic design at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. In 2021, Ray wrote and published Why is the salaryman carrying a surfboard?, a bilingual book about the history of institutional white supremacy and Westernization in the Japanese design industry.
ROOTS: Japan
FRUIT: Ray pokes at the oddities, ironies, and the sometimes outrageous that exist in our increasingly cross-cultural society, through a highly personal and uniquely anthropological design lens, to spark conversation about and between us.
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