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Yoshiteru Otani, Artist & Designer
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 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,
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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.
of Peanuts-inspired art, Otani has been working with the Schulz
Museum since
its early design stages.