Dennis Ichiyama is an artist and a professor of Visual Communications Design at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana..
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Early life and education
Ichiyama attended the University of Hawaii-Manoa where he obtained his B.F.A. and then went on to get his M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Yale University. From there he studied as a post-graduate student at Allegemeine Gewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland.
Career
Ichiyama worked as a designer at the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
During his career he has received several fellowships and study grants, and many awards in Print, Communication Arts, Creativity, and HO publications' annual design competitions. He has contributed to the book Contemporary Designers. and the book Hamilton Wood Type, A History in Headlines.
Art
Ichiyama's art focuses on woodblock prints. He uses opaque and transparent inks to layer wood block prints of letters on top of one another. By doing this, he creates new shapes and forms within the remaining positive and negative space. His work can be found in many library collections in the US, Zurich, Rome, and Corunda, as well as the National Art Museum and Gallery
Ichiyama has also designed a number of commercial trademarks.