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Yukio Ota is a distinguished graphic designer and currently professor in the Design Department at Tama Art University in Japan.
Born in 1939, he graduated from Tama Art University and subsequently studied at the Venice National Art Institute.
He first proposed the LoCoS language while studying in Italy in 1964, and has spent over thirty years developing the system.
Professor Ota has also designed many public signs and symbols, the most famous being an emergency exit sign.
Japanese industry has accepted Professor Ota's exit sign as a national standard, and international organizations are currently
considering its use.
Professor Ota has received several design awards, and authored more than a dozen books and numerous articles on pictogram design
and symbolic language. He is President of the Japan Society for Science of Signs, Chief Director of the Sign Center of Japan,
and serves as a member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee on graphic symbols.
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