Naoya Katagami is a Hiroshima-based designer working across visual communication, typography, and exhibition design. Deeply influenced by his background in music and cultural history, Katagami’s work often reflects themes of memory, peace, and collective experience. His visual language balances minimalism and metaphor, seeking to evoke emotional resonance through structural simplicity.

In 2025, Katagami’s work Hiroshima Peace Song Exhibition was awarded the Silver A’ Design Award in Graphics, Illustration, and Visual Communication Design. The piece reimagines the lyrical flow of Hiroshima’s peace anthem as a cascading waterfall, blending Zen aesthetics with scientific observation inspired by da Vinci’s studies on fluid dynamics. With an emphasis on clarity and depth, his design seeks to communicate universal values through localized expression.

Katagami continues to pursue projects that intersect social relevance with timeless visual storytelling. His practice values not only technical refinement but also human connection—seeing design as a bridge between people, cultures, and generations. He is currently preparing for his next publication featuring photographic works that reinterpret interior spaces with surreal and symbolic narratives.

As a designer, Katagami is committed to contributing to global conversations around peace, identity, and the future of visual culture.

Hiroshima Peace Song Exhibition by Naoya Katagami The designer created the design by envisioning how a single droplet of water expands into a cascading waterfall, using the lyrics of the Hiroshima Peace Song. Inspired by principles akin to Japanese Zen, the design is placed on a plain background so that its simplicity yields deeper significance the more one observes it. The English lyrics of the Hiroshima Peace Song, which is sung every year at the end of the Peace Memorial Ceremony on August 6, are used to symbolize how peace can spread outward.

MioBar Editorial Design by Naoya Katagami This project presents the renewal of MioBar into Gran Caffe Mio after thirteen years of operation. The design outcome includes a leaflet, a photo book, and a custom typeface that express the refined yet approachable atmosphere of the transformed interior. Inspired by Italian cafe culture, the project uses architectural curves as typographic motifs and integrates photography to document spatial qualities and human presence. It frames the cafe as a space for social interaction within its local context.

Naoya Katagami

2-7-5 Hayashigahara

Hatukaichishi

739-0444

P: +819011840165

Naoya Katagami is IAD member since 2025, with 4074 IAD rating.