Yoshiteru Otani, Artist & Designer

With an extensive background in museum and commercial exhibition design, Yoshi and his O2 Company have been responsible for a wide variety of projects in Japan, from the planning and design of Dino Expos in Niigata, Izumo, and Matsuyama to the planning and design for the All Japan Country Fairs.

Since meeting Charles Schulz in 1993, Yoshi has focused much of his creativity on projects relating directly to Peanuts characters. Examples include the design, art, and exhibition planning for the Osaka Snoopy Town theme park and Snoopy Town Shops in Funabashi, Hiroshima, Yokohama, and Osaka.

Yoshi, who holds a U.S. patent on cut and folded morphing paper art, also
paints and creates metal sculptures and kinesthetic artworks. Because of his fascination with Schulz's work and Schulz's admiration for his whimsical creations
of Peanuts-inspired art, Otani has been working with the Schulz Museum since its early design stages.

Some of Yoshi's projects for the Schulz Museum
include the Morphing Snoopy wood sculpture and
Peanuts tile mural pieces in the Museum's Great Hall,
and the 2004-05 Schulz Museum exhibition, Peanuts—Found in Translation.