Ryosuke Uehara

Ryosuke Uehara was born in Hokkaido in 1972. He is currently employed at Draft Co., Ltd., where he is involved in the D-BROS product brand. Among the products he has designed are the “Hope Forever Blossoming” line of flower vases and the “Hotel Butterfly” line of products inspired by an imaginary hotel. Since 2006, Mr. Uehara has served as art director handling all graphic work for the THEATRE PRODUCTS fashion brand and THEATRE MUSICA music label. His other major clients include Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd., une nana cool corp. and Smiles Co., Ltd. In addition, Mr. Uehara’s range of activities in collaboration with Yoshie Watanabe is remarkably broad. In 2007 they produced the short film “Yokubo no chairoi katamari/Brown Morsels of Desire” for the “chocolate” exhibition at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT; the same year they participated in the “SPACE FOR YOUR FUTURE” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; and in October 2008 they jointly held the “SPECIMEN OF TIME” exhibition at AMPG (Azuma Makoto Private Gallery). Among Mr. Uehara’s many awards received to date are Tokyo ADC Awards, the JAGDA New Designer Award, the Tokyo TDC Award, the New York ADC Award Gold Prize and the Warsaw International Poster Biennale Silver Medal. Ryosuke Uehara is a member of Tokyo ADC and JAGDA.