How to Make Things: Masahiko Sato

It is a beautiful item.

Author: Masahiko Sato Publisher: Sayusha 320P B5 variant size softcover Published July 2025

"If the method of creation is new, what is created will naturally be new."
A convincing sentence. What he wants to talk about is not "expression" but the "method of creation" that produced that expression. A catalog in the form of a story for an exhibition.

[Contents] *From the publisher's website
Masahiko Sato, an artist who has worked on educational programs such as "PythagoraSwitch," "Dango 3 Brothers," and "0655/2355," as well as numerous commercials that have taken the world by storm, such as "Bazaar de Gozaru (NEC)," "Molts (Suntory)," and "Scone (Koikeya)," and interactive art with the theme of body representation, represented by "Calculation Garden" and "Fingerprint Pond." Sato himself talks about his 40 years of creative activities.
The first book to convey the entire scope of his wide-ranging activities. Many valuable illustrations are included!
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I have been researching and working as an artist for a long time, but I didn't start to be conscious of "expression" until much later, when I was approaching my 30s. In fact, I started working on "expression" as a job in my mid-30s.

In this book, I will tell the story of my journey around "education," "expression," and "method," from when I was a university student deciding my future path to the present, along with actual works.

As you read on, expressions from different fields will appear from time to time at the edges of the paths I have taken.
They are also my answers, which I barely found, to the challenges that appeared before me as if by necessity at each time.

--From the preface of this book, "A Catalog in the Form of a Story"