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Celebrating the legacy of Kamekura Yusaku’s iconic Tokyo 1964 Olympics identity

Celebrating the legacy of Kamekura Yusaku’s iconic Tokyo 1964 Olympics identity

The 1964 Summer Games were seminal in cementing Japan’s post-war identity and the design of everything from pictograms to posters to uniforms – a modernist vision championed by Kamekura – played a massive role in making such a remarkable event.

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A Year of Learning

Obviously, Covid-19 wreaked havoc on the world and countless lives this past year. We all know someone who caught the virus or died from it, or we were infected ourselves. We tried to do our part by staying home to limit our exposure to other people. We stayed away from our loved ones to protect them and to slow the spread. To keep ourselves occupied, many of us took up baking, cooking, knitting, or exercising. I started on what would become a yearlong path of learning about whatever interested me.

YouTube as a Gateway to Knowledge

Video site YouTube saw an explosion in traffic from people bored in lockdown. I was one of them. At first, I was simply trying to learn how to optimize my work-from-home setup. Channels such as Podcastage and Curtis Judd taught me about microphones, and I upgraded my audio setup.