is a Japanese
web design
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er.
Yugo studied
engineering
Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...
,
architecture
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and
landscape design
Landscape design is an independent profession and a design and art tradition, practiced by landscape designers, combining nature and culture. In contemporary practice, landscape design bridges the space between landscape architecture and gard ...
.
He is one of the authors of ''New Masters Of Flash'' (2003).
Yugo has exhibited and lectured in Asia, United States, and Europe. His artwork has been shown at
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
in Paris,
Vienna Künstlerhaus
The Künstlerhaus in Vienna’s 1st district has accommodated the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung since 1868. It is located in the Ringstrassenzone in between Akademiestraße, Bösendorferstraße and Musikvereinsplatz.
The building was erected betw ...
in Vienna, and the
Design Museum in London.
His commercial works have received many international awards, including Cannes Lions, One Show, Clio Award, and NY ADC.
[ ] He utilizes mathematics underlying natural complexity to create online interactions that are usable and familiar because their behavior is modeled on the natural world.
Nakamura is owner of the web development company Tha Ltd.
FFFFOUND!, a popular image
bookmarking
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During mitosis, gene transcription is silenced and most transcription factors are r ...
site, was launched by the company in 2007
and was closed on May 8, 2017.
Books and publications
*2004 Creative Code /
John Maeda
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- Thames & Hudson
*2003 +81(Vol.24) - +81
*2003 Sugo - Sugo
*2003 JPG - Actar Editorial
*2003 TIME Magazine - TIME
*2002 SPOON - Phaidon
*2001 72 DPI - Die Gestalten Verlag
*2001 New Master of Flash 2 - friends of ED
*2001 Gasbook 10 - DesignExchange
*2001 WDA 2001 - GRAPHIC
*2000 Moving Type - Digital Media Design
*2000 New Master of Flash - friends of ED
*2000 Gasbook 8 - DesignExchange
*2000 Big 26 : Tradition - Big Magazine
Awards
* 2007 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards - Gold - UNIQLO USA
* 2007 Cannes Cyber Lion - Silver - UNIQLO USA
* 2007 OneShow - Silver - UNIQLO USA
* 2006 Cannes Cyber Lion - Gold - Communication Evolved
* 2006 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards - Gold - Communication Evolved
* 2006 OneShow - Silver - Communication Evolved
* 2006 Clio Awards - Bronze - Communication Evolved
* 2006 Cannes Cyber Lion - Silver - Honda Sweet Mission
* 2006 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards - Silver - Honda Sweet Mission
* 2005 Prix Ars Electronica - Distinctive Merit - yugop.com
* 2005 Cannes Cyber Lion - Gold - FM Festival 2004
* 2005 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards - Gold - FM Festival 2004
* 2005 NY ADC Distinctive Merit - FM Festival 2004
* 2005 Clio Awards - Silver - FM Festival 2004
* 2005 One Show Interactive - Silver - FM Festival 2004
* 2004 Cannes Cyber Lion - Grand Prix - ecotonoha
* 2004 One Show Interactive - Best of Show - ecotonoha
* 2004 One Show Interactive - Grand Clio - ecotonoha
* 2004 LIAA - Grand Prix - ecotonoha
* 2004 Clio Awards - Gold - ecotonoha
* 2004 Clio Awards - Gold - ecotonoha
* 2004 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards - Silver - ecotonoha
* 2004 ACA Media Arts Festival - Short List - ecotonoha
* 2004 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards - Grand Prix - TRUNK
* 2003 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards - Grand Prix - CAMCAMTIME
* 2003 One Show Interactive - Gold - CAMCAMTIME
* 2003 NY ADC Distinctive Merit - CAMCAMTIME
* 2003 ACA Media Arts Festival - Excellence Prize - CAMCAMTIME
* 2002 LIAA - Short List - Connected_Identity
* 2002 ACA Media Arts Festival - Excellence Prize - Sky Pavilion
* 2001 Cannes Lions - Short List - Sky Pavilion
* 2001 WDA 2001 - Special Prize - Connected_Identity
References
External links
Tha - Web Design Agency run by Yugo Nakamura
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1970 births
Living people
Software engineers
Flash artists
Japanese graphic designers
Japanese computer scientists