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The one and only master of train station packing-tape calligraphy shares his story and inspiration soranews24.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 7 months ago

These packing-tape signs weren’t made by a team of construction workers, nor will you be able to find them at many other stations in Japan.
That’s because these signs are all one-of-a-kind handcrafted pieces made by a single man, the world’s only master of packing-tape calligraphy: Shuetsu Sato.
RocketNews24’s very own Mr. Sato was walking through Shinjuku Station just the other day when he saw a sign… a packing-tape sign.
Shinjuku Station was my first post, and it was under construction at the time, so I had to guide passengers using a megaphone.
For the past month or so I’ve been making signs like ‘stay to the left,’ ‘staircase,’ and ‘watch your step.