Yuri Sato
Yuri Sato

Yuri Sato. Graphic designer from Japan, currently based in Amsterdam. mail@yurisato.com. Instagram.

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Publication

New Surface Research, Henri Jacobs, 2024

328 pages. 210 × 297 mm. Text by Kasper Andreasen and Henri Jacobs. Design by Yuri Sato, Roger Willems. Published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam. Printed by Wilco Art Books. ISBN 9789464460698

Honoured with the Honorary Appreciation, Best Book Designs from all over the World 2025, Stiftung Buchkunst. Selected as one of The Best Dutch Book Designs 2024 by both the professional and student juries.

Publication

Reflecting, Transgressing, or Bending Back, Stretching, Warming up to Go to the Other Side, dariya trubina, 2024

32 pages. Text by dariya trubina. Graphic design by Yuri Sato. BA thesis by dariya trubina, TXT department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Produced at the Silk Screen Workshop, CAD/CAM, and Book Bindery at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.

Artwork

Light Meter, Mio Fujimaki, 2024

210 × 70 × 40 mm. Analog photo paper (both exterior and interior), oil ink on paper. Edition 3. Bound in the dark and ever-changing under the light. Book design and letterpress printing by Yuri Sato. 

Exhibited at Assisting Eyes, B32, Maastricht, NL. Part of the Archipel Programme of the Biennale de l'Image Possible 2024, Liège, BE.

Artwork

Tsukiyomi, Mio Fujimaki, 2022.

240 × 320 × 20 mm. Analog photo paper (cover and inner pages), oil ink on paper. Edition of 2. Bound in the dark and ever-changing under the light. Book design and letterpress printing by Yuri Sato. Thanks to Book Bindery and Letterpress Workshop, Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Exhibited at Collected Distances – in conversations, The Japan Foundation, Cologne, DE, 2022 

Publication

In a radical detail, Juliette Brederode, 2022

Photobook, 290 × 396 mm, 72 pages, inkjet printing (images), laser printing (text pages). Edition of 20. Photography and text by Juliette Brederode. Graphic design by Yuri Sato. Graduation project by Juliette Brederode, DOG time, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Printing and binding at Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

Selected as one of The Best Dutch Book Designs 2022 by the student jury.

Publication

Going between here and there, Natsumi Kobayashi, 2022, Tokyo.

Publication, A4, 32 pages + 4 pages (cover) + 4 pages (A6 insert), offset printing, edition of 300. Text and images (original monoprints) by Natsumi Kobayashi. Graphic design by Yuri Sato. Printed by Fujiwara Printing, Japan.

Writing

Glossing Tongues (thesis), Yuri Sato

BA Thesis, Graphic Design Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Written and designed by Yuri Sato. Supervised by Phil Baber. Proofread by Luca Pening. Laser printing. Printing and binding at Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

In the summer of 2018 I was diagnosed with tongue cancer, as a result of which I had a part of my tongue surgically removed. In her 1978 critique, Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag challenged metaphors and the ways of thinking which surround certain diseases, while she was undergoing cancer herself. Reflecting this, I realised that there have been many metaphors and stories not only around cancer but also around the tongue, especially the act of having one’s tongue cut off. […] 

Yuri Sato. Graphic designer from Japan, currently based in Amsterdam. mail@yurisato.com. Instagram.

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Publication

New Surface Research, Henri Jacobs, 2024

Honoured with the Honorary Appreciation, Best Book Designs from all over the World 2025, Stiftung Buchkunst. Selected as one of The Best Dutch Book Designs 2024 by both the professional and student juries.

328 pages. 210 × 297 mm. Text by Kasper Andreasen and Henri Jacobs. Design by Yuri Sato, Roger Willems. Published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam. Printed by Wilco Art Books. ISBN 9789464460698

Publication

Reflecting, Transgressing, or Bending Back, Stretching, Warming up to Go to the Other Side, dariya trubina, 2024

32 pages. Text by dariya trubina. Graphic design by Yuri Sato. BA thesis by dariya trubina, TXT department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Produced at the Silk Screen Workshop, CAD/CAM, and Book Bindery at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.

Artwork

Light Meter, Mio Fujimaki, 2024

210 × 70 × 40 mm. Analog photo paper (both exterior and interior), oil ink on paper. Edition 3. Bound in the dark and ever-changing under the light. Book design and letterpress printing by Yuri Sato. Thanks to Book Bindery and Letterpress Workshop, Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Exhibited at Assisting Eyes, B32, Maastricht, NL. Part of the Archipel Programme of the Biennale de l'Image Possible 2024, Liège, BE.

Artwork

Tsukiyomi, Mio Fujimaki, 2022.

240 × 320 × 20 mm. Analog photo paper (cover and inner pages), oil ink on paper. Edition of 2. Bound in the dark and ever-changing under the light. Book design and letterpress printing by Yuri Sato. Thanks to Book Bindery and Letterpress Workshop, Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Exhibited at Collected Distances – in conversations, The Japan Foundation, Cologne, DE, 2022 

Publication

In a radical detail, Juliette Brederode, 2022

Selected as one of The Best Dutch Book Designs 2022 by the student jury.

Photobook, 290 × 396 mm, 72 pages, inkjet printing (images), laser printing (text pages). Edition of 20. Photography and text by Juliette Brederode. Graphic design by Yuri Sato. Graduation project by Juliette Brederode, DOG time, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Printing and binding at Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

Publication

Going between here and there, Natsumi Kobayashi, 2022, Tokyo.

Publication, A4, 32 pages + 4 pages (cover) + 4 pages (A6 insert), offset printing, edition of 300. Text and images (original monoprints) by Natsumi Kobayashi. Graphic design by Yuri Sato. Printed by Fujiwara Printing, Japan.

Writing

Glossing Tongues (thesis), Yuri Sato

BA Thesis, Graphic Design Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Written and designed by Yuri Sato. Supervised by Phil Baber. Proofread by Luca Pening. Laser printing. Printing and binding at Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

In the summer of 2018 I was diagnosed with tongue cancer, as a result of which I had a part of my tongue surgically removed. In her 1978 critique, Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag challenged metaphors and the ways of thinking which surround certain diseases, while she was undergoing cancer herself. Reflecting this, I realised that there have been many metaphors and stories not only around cancer but also around the tongue, especially the act of having one’s tongue cut off. […]