Y u r i G o m ie-mail gomiyuri@gmail.com

I was awarded fi rst prize in a design competition for the local council in Tokyo in 2006. I did more than 100 illustrations of my character ‘Namisuke’, also designing many different products and examples of packaging to sell in local council shops.

2006 - 2011 Art director, graphic designer, creator of characters (Namisuke) for local council, Tokyo, Japan

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‘Namisuke bread’ were sold at Seven-Eleven in Suginami sity. 2009-2010

Now Namisuke is exhibited with other Japanese famous characters in many cities in Vietnam, Spain, Portugal, Australia, Philippine, Germany, France, Hungary, Taipei, China and Italy by the Japan Foundation from 2011-2012.

2010 Photographer and graphic designer for a texitile catalogue, Play, Tokyo, Japan

2009 Art directior and photographer for sculpture exhibition, ‘Michikusa’, Tokyo, Japan

2009 Photographer and art director for ‘Geidai Design Project’, Tokyo, Japan

2010 Geidai Tsushin, Issue 20, magazine of Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan- Cover and inside photographs

2009, DAGODA, Issue 2, magazine of Housei University, Japan - All of the inside photographs and editorial design for 8 pages

2011 ‘United Arrows’ (shop) Tokyo, Japan - Photographs used for packages of original products

2010 Documentary photographer for designers talk event ‘Crop’ , Surrey, UK

2010 Documentary photographer for Famborough Aviator Hotel ‘New Years eve’ , Surrey, UK

2010-2011 ‘Landmark 1966-2011’

Before I left Tokyo, I found a set of old photographs taken in 1966. They are travel photographs of my great grandmother and her friends visited to Europe. So I decided to follow her step.

I took self-portraits with strangers and local friends in front of landmark in London, Paris, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Frankfurt, Pisa, Florence and Rome. This project is on going.

2012 Research Methods for Photography, AVA Press, UK - Images used as illustration of methodology.

Y u r i G o m ie-mail gomiyuri@gmail.com