Masahiro Naruse


Art Director / UI Designer
Curator of Advertisements in NYC
Type Foundry at Future Fonts
Former Type Thursday NYC team member

Profile detail:  LinkedIn
Social: @rohisamaseruna
Contact: seruna@me.com




Awards & Honors:
  • 2022    New Aesthetic 3 / Metamor Bit
  • 2021    Type Directors Club 24th Annual Communication Design Competition / Certificate of Typographic Excellence / Stop Cyberbullying!
  • 2021     Tokyo Type Directors Club / Selected for the annual book / Falling Script
  • 2020    Muse Creative Award / Gold Award / Lumma website & rebranding
  • 2020    The One Show 2020 / Merit Award / Falling Script
  • 2020    Type Directors Club 23rd Annual Typeface Design Competition / Certificate of Typographic Excellence, Judge’s Choice / Falling Script
  • 2019     14th Annual W3 Awards / Gold Winner / Attck.com website
  • 2019     Annual Muse Awards / Silver / Subway Reads website
  • 2019     CSS Design Awards / Special Kudos / Acreage Holdings website
  • 2019     Awwwards / Audience Favorite / 700 Islands website
  • 2019     Shorty Awards / Winner in Books & News, Audience Honor / Subway Reads website
  • 2018     Awwwards / Honorable Mention / Double Barrel website

Recognitions/Publications:
  • 2022     New Aesthetic 3 by Sorry Press (Germany) / Poster Exhibition (Paris)





Experience:
  • Happy Cog (2022 - )
  • ATTCK (2017 - 2022)
  • Dentsu (2013 - 2015)
  • Adbrain (2007 - 2013)

Education:
  • Type Electives / Display Type Design
  • Type@Cooper (Cooper Union) / Generative Typography, Movable Type (Continuing Education)
  • School of Visual Arts / Branding and Graphic Design (Continuing Education 2016, 2017)
  • Tama Art University / The Depart of Graphic Design / Bachelor's degree (2003 - 2007)
Selected clients:
McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Lexus, Canon, Uniqlo, Shiseido, Snow Peak, Harvard Law Review, Literacy Partners, Double Barrel, Subaru, etc.

Capabilities:
Art direction / UI design / Brand identity design / Animation (2D/3D) / Typeface design / Photo & Video direction / Illustration etc.

Applications:
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, XD / Figma / Sketch / InVision Prototyping / Cinema 4D / Blender / Glyphs 3 / Visual Studio Code, Three.js, etc.





A little more about me ︎︎︎



Advertisements in NYC
Hosting an Instagram account
curating the ads in NYC.



Type Thursday
Doing a marketing for a
letterform and typography community.



Future Fonts 
Offering an original experimental font.

Offering royalty free food photos etc.
Also on Unsplash.



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