Yuri Sato
Yuri Sato

Yuri Sato. Graphic designer from Japan, currently based in Amsterdam. mail@yurisato.com. Instagram.

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Glossing Tongues (thesis), Yuri Sato

BA Thesis, Graphic Design Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Written and designed by Yuri Sato. Supervised by Phil Baber. Proofread by Luca Pening. Laser printing. Printing and binding at Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

In the summer of 2018 I was diagnosed with tongue cancer, as a result of which I had a part of my tongue surgically removed. In her 1978 critique, Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag challenged metaphors and the ways of thinking which surround certain diseases, while she was undergoing cancer herself. Reflecting this, I realised that there have been many metaphors and stories not only around cancer but also around the tongue, especially the act of having one’s tongue cut off. […] 

Visual essay

Glossing Tongues (visual essay), Yuri Sato

Graduation project. 32 pages contribution to TAkeAwAY, 120 × 170 mm, a publication by graduating students at Graphic Design Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2020. 

A compilation of myths, metaphors, and codes surrounding disease and the removal of one's tongue. This research project explores the contradiction in human understanding of disease, where mythology and medical reality intertwine.

Yuri Sato. Graphic designer from Japan, currently based in Amsterdam. mail@yurisato.com. Instagram.

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Writing

Glossing Tongues (thesis), Yuri Sato

BA Thesis, Graphic Design Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Written and designed by Yuri Sato. Supervised by Phil Baber. Proofread by Luca Pening. Laser printing. Printing and binding at Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

In the summer of 2018 I was diagnosed with tongue cancer, as a result of which I had a part of my tongue surgically removed. In her 1978 critique, Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag challenged metaphors and the ways of thinking which surround certain diseases, while she was undergoing cancer herself. Reflecting this, I realised that there have been many metaphors and stories not only around cancer but also around the tongue, especially the act of having one’s tongue cut off. […] 

Visual essay

Glossing Tongues (visual essay), Yuri Sato

Graduation project. 32 pages contribution to TAkeAwAY, 120 × 170 mm, a publication by graduating students at Graphic Design Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2020. 

A compilation of myths, metaphors, and codes surrounding disease and the removal of one's tongue. This research project explores the contradiction in human understanding of disease, where mythology and medical reality intertwine.