Makoto Orui

Freelance designer. Worked as art director for "purple" magazine in France and "rockin’on" magazine in Japan. As the chief of Fiction Inc, he has published "SALE 2", "THE international" also distributed art books, movies and running "THE deep" gallery and club. In 2006, he moved to Paris.
In 2007, he starts ceramics after being invited to visit a ceramics studio. He studied for 3 years the basic technique of using the big abondoned antique kerokuro (a kicking potter’s wheel) with a French woman ceramist. Thereafter he is exhibiting in Paris and Gallery Naruyama in Tokyo.