Ai Komagata / Graphic Designer, Director of One Stroke Co., Ltd.

After graduating from Kuwasawa Design School, she worked as a menswear designer at Onward Kashiyama. She later joined ONE STROKE, where she worked under her father, book artist and designer Katsumi Komagata, engaging in graphic design and book production.

While listening carefully to the perspectives of people who are blind or have low vision, she designed and produced tactile picture books that convey the distinctive architectural features of the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. Her work spans a wide range of fields, including signage design for Fukuoka Dental College and Fukuoka College of Health Sciences, as well as the design of the commemorative symbol mark for the 100th anniversary of the opening of the JR Ofunato Line.

She has served as a lecturer for talks, workshops, and portfolio reviews in countries such as Italy, Spain, Mexico, and South Korea.

Lecturer at Kuwasawa Design School for Basic Design (fashion design)

Lecturer at Ichinoseki City Library for Picture Book Artist Training Course

Judge for Kuwasawa Design School Festival "Fashion Show" 2022, 2024.

Books "Good Day, today" (2016), "Hands" (2020), "The Hands Touching the World" (2022), "Tactile Book, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum" (2025).

Participated in the exhibition "Flower of Life," commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum in 2022.

Past interviews https://www.kds.ac.jp/career/obog/ai-komagata/

Podcast 1st https://sorosoro-art.vercel.app/ep/063

　　　　 2nd https://sorosoro-art.vercel.app/ep/064

Tactile Book, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 2025

Ai Komagata was asked by Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum to design and produce a tactile picture book for people who are blind.

We aimed to create this book that both those who can see and those who cannot see can enjoy together, in order to tell the stylistic beauty of the distinctive building of the Teien Art Museum.

We also considered and devised easily recognizable shapes, forms, font sizes, etc., while listening to the opinions of people who are blind or people with low vision.

Kuwasawa Design School Graduation Exhibition 2025 Main Visual Design

Ai Komagata designed this with the hope that students will bloom their own flowers from their studies here.
There are two facilities, the main building and the 2nd building.
It was decorated to the glass surface of the 2nd building with flowers using cutting sheets.
The light comes in at night and spreads outward.

Ai Komagata is teacher of "Basic Design (Fashion Design)" here.

Hands, 2020

The Hands Touching the World, 2022

Jōhana Maki-e OHARA Jigoemon XVI, 2022

This is a collection of works by Jōhana Maki-e OHARA Jigoemon XVI which has continued for 447 years.
We, ONE STROKE designed the editorial and interviews about the land where his works are produced and his personality.

Direction and book design by Katsumi Komagata
Interview text, editorial design by Ai Komagata
Photograph by Tomoki Hirokawa