Professor John Warwicker-Le Breton

John Warwicker-Le Breton is Melbourne Enterprise Professor of Graphic Design at the Victorian College of the Arts and design editor of Art + Australia.Since 2012 he has been Visiting Professor at Zokei University, Tokyo, and since 2004 a member (and first non-Japanese member) of the Tokyo Type Directors Club. Warwicker is co-founder of the multi-disciplinary design and creative studio Tomato, a worldwide group of directors, designers, artists, writers, producers and composers whose work spans graphic design, typography, film and video direction, architectural design, art installations, interactive media, fashion and product design, branding and strategy, sound and music design. He has published numerous books including The Floating World (2005), The Typographic Mind (2010) and One Thousand Fathoms Deep (2016). In 2016, Warwicker curated and designed a major exhibition in Tokyo and publication, O Tomato Parco, celebrating 25 years of Tomato.  He has won the Tokyo Type Directors special prize twice, for The Floating World and for the typography, graphics and publications for O Tomato Parco.