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Yasushi Saikusa

Successful Japanese type designer of Gakuen, the gold prize in the 6th Morisawa Awards International Typeface Design Competition, 1999. A simple schoolyard kanji typeface of utter beauty.

Equally gorgeous and inventful is his Shoutenkaku and Shoutenmaru family, which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.

Saikusa published some Japanese typefaces at FONT1000.

His own company, Design Signal, published Kinshichi, Rakugaki, Ayumin, Kinshichi, Mambo, Rumba, Kirigirisu, Fudeshichishichi, Dada, Arinco, Showwa 70, Ikikoku, Flaming, Tomorrow Dream, Tomorrow Skip, Stage 1, Birthday 19, Birthday 21, Tomorrow Walk, U-min Walk, Ryushichi, Fudeshichi, Baby Walk, Itaikoku, Kirigirisu, Shotenkaku, Shotenmaru, Kotsubu, Mayumin Walk, Walk, Kokoro No. 1, Kokoro No. 2, Kokoro No. 3, Ryusen Haru, Ryusen Natsu, Ryusen AKi, Ryusen Fuyu.

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